Carley Fortune

Carley Fortune is a Canadian author and former journalist — she previously worked as an editor at Refinery29 Canada and The Globe and Mail — who has become one of the most popular names in contemporary "beach read" romance. She broke out with Every Summer After in 2022, a dual-timeline love story built around a decade of summers at a Canadian lakeside cottage, and followed it with Meet Me at the Lake and This Summer Will Be Different, all sharing her signature blend of nostalgic, sun-drenched settings with emotionally layered second-chance and slow-burn romance. New readers should start with Every Summer After, her breakout debut and the clearest example of her structural signature: alternating past-and-present timelines that let a relationship's history unfold alongside its present-day reckoning. Fortune's journalism background shows in her clean, economical prose, and her books have become closely associated with the modern summer-reading genre, frequently topping seasonal bestseller and "beach read" recommendation lists. There is no film or television adaptation of her work to date.