Instead of living in the city, Fern's back home, running her mother's lakeside resort-something she vowed never to do. At thirty-two, Fern's life doesn't look at all how she once imagined it would. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in the city.
Told over the course of five years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects, in this breathtaking new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After.įern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. 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. When Percy returns to the lake to attend Sam's mother's funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been.
And slowly that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. For five summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family 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. Until the day she gets a call that sends her racing back to Barry's Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek. 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. 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. A weekend to get it right.Ī magazine writer has to make a choice when she returns to the lake she grew up on, and to the man she thought she'd never have to live without, in this achingly nostalgic debut.
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