Every Summer After

To fall in love takes six summers. A single instant to collapse. A whole weekend to make it perfect.

It is said that you can never go home again, and Persephone Fraser has found that to be all too true ever since she committed the worst mistake of her life ten years ago. She spends her summers in a chic apartment in the city, going out with friends and keeping everyone at a safe distance from her heart, rather as the shimmering shoreline summers she remembers from her youth.

That is, until she gets the call that forces her to return quickly to Barry's Bay and into Sam Florek's life, the guy she never imagined having to live without.

Percy and Sam had been together for six summers, spending lazy afternoons on the lake, hot summer nights working in his family's restaurant, and cozy evenings curled up with books—she with horror short tales in progress, and him with medical textbooks. That friendship eventually developed into something amazing before it abruptly ended.

Their bond remains unbreakable even when Percy returns to the lake for Sam's mother's burial. They won't know, however, whether their love is stronger than their greatest past transgressions, until Percy faces the choices she made and the years she's spent punishing herself for them.

Every Summer After is a grand, sweeping nostalgic narrative about love and the people and decisions that eternally change our lives, spread over the span of six years and one weekend.