Every Summer After
by Carley Fortune
Fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE THE PRIME ORIGINAL SERIES EVERY YEAR AFTER "A radiant debut."—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Great Big Beautiful Life Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever. As featured in Today ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ USA Today ∙ SheReads ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ BookBub ∙ Bustle ∙ and more!
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Carley Fortune's captivating novel, *Every Summer After*, immediately draws readers into a rich tapestry of first love, enduring regret, and the irresistible pull of home, themes that resonate deeply with the curated selection of *Broken Country*, *The Re-Do List*, and *Twice*. At its heart, *Every Summer After* explores the profound impact of past decisions, particularly the one monumental mistake that sent protagonist Persephone Fraser away from the idyllic summers of her childhood. This central conflict of inescapable consequence and the yearning for a second chance finds a powerful echo in Denise Williams' *The Re-Do List*. Both novels tap into that universal human desire to rewrite history, to undo the words spoken or the actions taken that irrevocably alter the course of relationships and individual lives. Fortune’s narrative unflinchingly portrays Percy’s decade-long self-punishment, a poignant testament to how formative experiences, especially those tied to fractured relationships and a sense of place, continue to shape adult selves, a sentiment that undoubtedly connects with readers who found themselves drawn to the subtle dance of memory and consequence in Clare Leslie Hall's *Broken Country*.
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