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★★★★☆ 4.18 • Goodreads

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Craved 28 Summers' decades of stolen seasonal longing? Every Summer After by Carley Fortune delivers lakeside heartache that'll wreck you just as beautifully.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Dual timeline = decades of ache
  • Lake life sensory escape you'll taste
  • Flawed lovers redeemed, guilt-free swoons
  • Annual summer reunions ratchet forbidden heat

If you lived for those stolen Nantucket weekends in 28 Summers, let Carley Fortune lure you lakeside for another unapologetically romantic escape. Every Summer After trades island sand for dock planks and delivers the same intoxicating blend: decades-long yearning, seasonal reunions that pulse with forbidden heat, and sensory details—bonfires, boat rides, sticky-sweet nostalgia—that dissolve real life into pure indulgence.

If imperfect love that spans a lifetime is your weakness, this book will wreck you beautifully.

Fortune mirrors Hilderbrand's gift for glossing moral edges in favor of emotional catharsis. This is relatable heartache crowned with bittersweet redemption, engineered for readers who crave aspirational escapism without the intellectual heavy lifting.

If imperfect love that spans a lifetime is your weakness, this book will wreck you beautifully.

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What Readers Are Saying

"I haven't read a book in a day because I legitimately couldn't bring myself to put it down...this was a beautiful love story with characters I fell in love with. Just so dang good." Hailey (Hailey in Bookland), Goodreads
"Every ounce of hype shown to this book is completely deserved... I loved just about every single minute of it and had the overwhelming feeling of not wanting it to end. This book left me a wreck in the best possible sense of the word." Maren’s Reads, Goodreads
"Breathtaking, emotional, vulnerable, tender, intense, beautiful, funny and oh so REAL... I felt every moment of this book. I smiled, I laughed, my heart raced... It’s such a rare book that takes me to that place." Kat, Goodreads

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