Author Carley Fortune in Toronto on April 23.Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press
Seasonal-romance specialist Carley Fortune continues her hot streak with the announcement that Amazon Prime Video has ordered an adaptation of her debut novel Every Summer After. The series will have the slightly tweaked title Every Year After.
The bestselling Toronto-based author’s second novel, 2023′s Meet Me at the Lake, has already been optioned by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for Netflix. There is no scheduled air date for Meet Me at the Lake at the moment, but Fortune said in a statement to The Globe and Mail she was “very happy with how the project is progressing.”
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Fortune’s third beach read, This Summer Will Be Different, was released this May.
Every Summer After is set in the author’s lakeside hometown, Barry’s Bay, Ont., where the story of Sam Florek and Persephone (Percy) Fraser drifts back to the sun-splashed days of their youth. Though not autobiographical, the writing of the 2022 novel was inspired by the author’s own teenage journals.
“Every Summer After holds a very special place in my heart and in the hearts of readers all over the world who deeply connect with Sam and Percy’s love story,” Fortune said. “I’m excited to partner with Amazon to take their journey even further – beyond the pages of the book, onto the screen, and into the hearts of audiences across the globe.”
Fortune is a former editor with The Globe whose books have sold more than two-million copies worldwide and have been translated into 30 languages in over 50 territories, according to her website.
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The logline for the Amazon Prime series reads, “Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A week to get it right. Every Year After is a fun, sweeping, romantic story that asks the question, what if your first love actually was your soulmate?”
It is not known how much the streamer paid for the rights to the novel.