If the dual-timeline ache of first love interrupted left you hollowed out after Love and Other Words by , let Every Summer After by wreck you all over again.
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- Dual timeline = nostalgia gut-punch weaponized
- Grief & betrayal rendered w/ zero sugarcoating
- Steamy scenes that actually earn emotional weight
- Nonlinear storytelling builds to ugly-cry payoff
If you're still recovering from the dual-timeline gut-punch that Macy and Elliot delivered, Every Summer After will reopen those wounds in the best possible way. Carley Fortune channels that same bittersweet ache of first love interrupted—summers thick with nostalgia, secrets that calcify into years of silence, and the kind of reunion that forces you to confront who you were against who you've become. The emotional rawness here doesn't flinch from grief or betrayal, offering the same cathartic release you craved when you closed Love and Other Words and immediately wanted to start over.
Fortune's protagonists carry their guarded hearts and relatable flaws like armor, their witty banter masking vulnerability until intimacy—steamy, tender, affirming—cracks them wide open. This isn't shallow escapism; it's therapeutic solace wrapped in a lakeside setting.
This isn't shallow escapism; it's therapeutic solace wrapped in a lakeside setting.
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
