Titles that name a month are usually naming an aftermath, and After December is explicit about it. Whatever happened has already happened; the story begins in the space that follows. L.A. Witt builds on that premise across more than twelve hours, which is a proper novel’s worth of time.
Our catalogue files the book under LGBTQ+ and romance together, and the length matters to how it reads. Twelve and a half hours is not the shape of a quick escapist romance. It is the shape of a story that wants to sit with fallout and repair, and to let the relationship develop at whatever pace the situation deserves.