Every Summer After
A heartbreakingly gripping story of love and loss
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4.5 • 108 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
'A radiant debut' EMILY HENRY
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
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 that has felt too true for the last decade, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life. 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 the day she gets a 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 restaurant and curling up together with books, Percy and Sam had been inseparable. And slowly that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.
When Percy returns to the lake, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. Percy must confront the decisions she's made and the years she's spent punishing herself for them, in order to determine, once and for all, 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.
'The magic and romance of summer is palpable' Popsugar
'Your next must-read beach-read' Ashley Audrain
'A sweet story about second chances, and how the future we imagine for ourselves is never quite what it turns out to be' Jodi Picoult
'Perfect for those who covet steamy summer dock days and second-chance love stories. I devoured it!' Karma Brown
'A quintessential summer novel, full of longing and lost love, and hits on so many beloved tropes' BuzzFeed
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Old wounds finally get a chance to heal in Fortune's spectacular debut. At 13 years old, Persephone "Percy" Fraser spends the summer in Barry's Bay, Ontario, aka "cottage country," where she meets Sam and Charlie Florek. Percy and Sam form an immediate bond and, over the next six summers, fall deeply in love—until everything goes horribly wrong. Fortune teases out what happened during that last summer to tear Percy and Sam apart as Percy, now 30, returns to Barry's Bay for the first time in 12 years to attend the funeral of Sam and Charlie's mother, a woman she adored. She and Sam, who haven't spoken since things ended, must finally confront their history and find the courage to accept responsibility for their mistakes. Alternating between the past and present, the story flawlessly conveys the lovers' growth both together and apart, and the summery setting provides an idyllic backdrop to their path back to each other. Centered on redemption and forgiveness, this sweeping, heartfelt romance proves impossible to put down.
Customer Reviews
LOVE IT SO MUCH
Absolutely adored this book! I could not stop reading and finished in a few days (sadly bc I didn’t want it to end)! I felt so attached to the characters and the suspense kept me on my toes, also spicy hehe wish I could read it again for the first time! Definitely recommend
Thank you!
Every summer after is the kind of novel that has the ability to take you right back to a moment in life. I was reminded of the feelings that once hit me with such force I couldn’t breath that ever consuming young but forever love. I feel deeply in love with my best friend at 17, I broke his heart at 20, we rekindled 9 years later and have been committed to forgiveness and our love for the past 10 years. I want to thank you, Carley, you took me right back in time, to be reminded of the intensity of the feelings, of the connection and of the pain. I read it in a day and loved every single page!!!!
Absolute must read!!
Beautiful story that gets you hooked almost immediately.