Every Summer After
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
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For six summers, Persephone Fraser spent every July and August at her family's small Ontario lake cottage with the boys next door. Twelve years later, she drives home for a funeral and finally has to face the older brother.
Every Summer After contains some explicit on-page scenes, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is a contemporary romance with significant emotional weight.
Every Summer After contains some explicit on-page scenes, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is a contemporary romance with significant emotional weight.
Every Summer After is a standalone, but Carley Fortune has written two related Ontario lake-set romances, Meet Me at the Lake and This Summer Will Be Different, with overlapping minor characters.
Every Summer After was written by Carley Fortune, published in 2022 by Berkley.
Every Summer After is 320 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Every Summer After takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Every Summer After is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.