Shari Low is a Scottish author best known for contemporary women’s fiction with big cast dynamics, secrets that surface over a single day, and “where are we now?” friendship arcs. Her catalogue is mostly standalones, with a few clearly defined series/linked continuities where order matters.

This page is set up like a choose-your-own bookshelf: pick a shelf, then read straight down it.
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The quickest way to choose your first Shari Low book
If you want the newest style and pacing: start with One Day with You (2023).
If you want a complete trilogy you can read back-to-back: start with One Day in Winter (2017).
If you want a thriller lane (co-written with Ross King): start with The Rise / Taking Hollywood (2014).
Continuity rules you can trust
Read in order (connected):
- Hollywood Thriller (with Ross King): one continuing story; titles are sometimes listed with alternate names.
- Winter Day trilogy: one shared framework; the later books assume you know what the earlier day set in motion.
- What If? trilogy: a long-gap return to the same lead and “what happened next?” questions.
Read in any order (standalone lane):
- Most of the “One ___” novels (summer/Christmas/day) are built to stand alone even when the branding looks similar.
Separate continuity (pen names):
- Ronni Cooper and Millie Conway titles are best treated as their own mini-shelves.
Hollywood Thriller series (with Ross King) – Publication order
- The Rise / Taking Hollywood (2014): Three friends chase Hollywood legend status, and the series plants the buried choices that later turn into leverage and fallout.
- The Catch / Breaking Hollywood (2015): The cost of fame tightens around the core trio, turning private secrets into public stakes with no clean exits.
- The Fall (2023): The glossy façade cracks as past decisions hit a breaking point, forcing the characters to choose between survival and the story they sold the world.
- The Dream (2026): The Hollywood arc continues into the aftermath, where ambition and reinvention collide with what can’t be undone.
Winter Day trilogy – Publication order
- One Day in Winter (2017): Over one winter day, multiple lives intersect as a long-held decision finally happens, kicking off the trilogy’s chain of consequences.
- Another Day in Winter (2018): The web tightens as secrets spread across the group, and the story pushes the cast toward choices they can’t politely postpone.
- The Last Day of Winter (2019): A wedding-day pressure cooker forces the trilogy’s unresolved tensions into the open, delivering the cleanest payoff if you’ve read Books 1-2.
What If? trilogy – Publication order
(Note: the first book is widely listed as an early-2000s release, while later editions may show a modern reissue year.)
- What If? (2001): A woman’s relationship history becomes a reckoning with “the one that got away,” setting the emotional question the later books revisit.
- What Now? (2021): Years later, the same life is tested by new truths, shifting the story from romantic possibility to what commitment actually costs.
- What Next? (2022): A bucket-list frame forces final honesty, closing the trilogy by making the characters choose what they’re keeping, and what they’re finally ending.
Standalone novels (Shari Low) – Publication order
- Why Not? (2002): A “why not change everything?” impulse turns into a messy reset, where romance has to compete with real life and real consequences.
- Double Trouble (2003): A double-identity style complication drives a relationship tangle, pushing the heroine to decide what truth she can actually live with.
- The Motherhood Walk of Fame (2007): A comedic look at expectations and reality turns parenting pressure into a story about friendship and self-definition.
- A Brand New Me (2008): A New Year’s reinvention attempt spirals into unexpected honesty, where “new me” means confronting the old patterns first.
- My Best Friend’s Life (2008): A friendship-based emotional pivot forces a heroine to reassess what she envies, what she’s missing, and what she’s willing to change.
- Temptation Street (2010): Trust cracks under suspicion and desire, turning a relationship into a test of what’s real versus what’s assumed.
- Friday Night with the Girls (2011): A friends-night tradition becomes the stage for secrets and turning points, where loyalty is tested in public and paid for in private.
- The Moment of Truth (2015): A single proposal-sized shock detonates across a circle of relationships, forcing the cast into immediate, irreversible decisions.
- The Other Wives Club (2016): Three women collide in a closed setting with shared history, and the story runs on what they admit to each other at last.
- The Story of Our Life (2016): A “perfect life” façade starts slipping, and romance becomes the least controllable part of the heroine’s plan.
- A Life Without You (2017): A life event reframes a friendship and a love story, pushing the characters toward the hard truth of what they can’t go back to.
- Because Mummy Said So (2018): Parenting myths get punctured by reality, and the emotional arc hinges on choosing your own rules.
- With or Without You (2018): A life-altering choice splits the road into two futures, and the romance sits inside the question of which self survives.
- This Is Me (2019): Two women face the long echo of a defining choice, where identity and motherhood become the story’s sharpest fault lines.
- My One Month Marriage (2020): A marriage that should have been simple becomes a mystery of motives, with friendship and betrayal driving the tension.
- One Day in Summer (2020): Over twenty-four hours, interlocked lives unravel as the cast confronts the secret they’ve all been orbiting.
- One Summer Sunrise (2021): A summer-day crossroads pulls multiple characters into a shared turning point, where the past is chased down rather than avoided.
- The Story of Our Secrets (2021): A death brings a circle of people back together, and the plot turns on what they discover about the man, and each other.
- One Last Day of Summer (2022): A final-day frame forces decisions on love and life, where chance meetings become commitments with consequences.
- One Day with You (2023): One day links five lives, and the story’s momentum comes from who tells the truth before the day is over.
- One Moment in Time (2023): A sudden moment flips expectations, turning a “small twist” into the start of a bigger emotional reset.
- One Christmas Eve (2023): Three Christmas Eve moments across decades expose the choices people repeat, and the story pays off through contrast and consequence.
- One Year After You (2024): A year-later lens revisits the cost of earlier choices, where second chances are weighed against what changed in the meantime.
- One Long Weekend (2024): One weekend traps four hearts in close proximity, and healing starts only when the characters stop performing “fine.”
- One Midnight with You (2024): A midnight deadline forces clarity, turning private doubts into public decisions.
- One Day and Forever (2025): Four journeys begin at dawn, and the romance threads tighten as each character’s “fresh start” meets reality.
- One More Day of Us (2025): Dreams and love collide under pressure, forcing the cast to choose between the life they planned and the one they’re living.
- One Snowy Day (2025): A storm locks a community into shared crisis, and the story runs on what people reveal when they can’t escape each other.
- Just One More Day (2026): A new day brings new stakes, pushing the characters into one more round of truth-telling they can’t delay.
Pen names and separate shelves
These are real related credits, but they’re not required to understand Shari Low’s main novels.
As Ronni Cooper
- Rock Chicks (2010): A glitz-and-chaos setup leans into bold persona and city-life momentum, built as its own standalone experience.
- Manhattan (2011): A big-city reinvention story turns romance into a high-stakes choice about identity and ambition.
As Millie Conway
- From Essex to Chelsea With Love (2012): A fish-out-of-water social climb becomes a romance-and-image story where fitting in costs more than expected.
Recommended reading orders (three tidy options)
Option A: The “One Day” era (newest, most representative)
- One Day with You (2023)
- One Christmas Eve (2023)
- One Long Weekend (2024)
- One Midnight with You (2024)
- One Snowy Day (2025)
Then circle back to One Day in Winter (2017) if you want a complete trilogy in the same structural style.
Option B: Trilogy first (maximum payoff, minimum decisions)
- One Day in Winter (2017)
- Another Day in Winter (2018)
- The Last Day of Winter (2019)
Option C: Thriller lane (co-written)
- The Rise / Taking Hollywood (2014)
- The Catch / Breaking Hollywood (2015)
- The Fall (2023)
- The Dream (2026)
Latest status
- Most recently listed releases: One Snowy Day (2025) and Just One More Day (2026).
- Also listed for 2026: The Dream (2026) as the next Hollywood Thriller installment, and at least one additional 2026 listing appears in some bibliographies under a placeholder-style title rather than a finalized cover title.
FAQs
Do I need to read the “One ___” books in order?
No. The naming is more about structure and branding than shared continuity, unless the book is explicitly labeled as part of a series (like the Winter Day trilogy).
Why do some Hollywood books look like different titles?
Two of the Hollywood installments are widely listed with alternate names (e.g., “Taking Hollywood” / “Breaking Hollywood”), so matching by series position is safer than matching by subtitle.
What’s the safest single starting point?
One Day with You (2023) is the cleanest entry if you want her current voice and structure in one book.
Conclusion
If you want Shari Low at her most “classic,” start with One Day in Winter (2017) and read the Winter Day trilogy straight through. If you want the most up-to-date feel, start with One Day with You (2023) and stay in the newer “One ___” run for a while before you roam.
Frank is the editor of BookSeries.blog, focusing on publication order, chronological timelines, and spoiler-free reading guides for book series and fictional universes.

