Every Summer After is the perfect combination of friends-to-lovers, second chance romance, nostalgia, love, and angst. If binge watching the adaptation—retitled Every Year After—on Prime has left you wanting more, these books, shows, and movies will fill the Barry’s Bay shaped hole in your heart.
Books
A Long Time Coming by Meghan Quinn
Lia is planning her wedding with the help of her male best friend Breaker Kane. He’s helping her down to every last detail. There is a big problem for Breaker though. He’s fallen in love with Lia and she’s marrying someone else. It’s up to Breaker to figure out how to win Lia over before she’s off the market forever.
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Summer Husband by Amy Lorowitz
Lori Kramer may be thirty-nine, but she’s headed to summer camp. To give her daughters their dream summer, she gets a job at Camp Woodlands, but it’s Lori that might have the time of her life. She and Teddy, the camp’s soccer coach, keep meeting up behind the scenes and soon casual encounters turn into steamy summer sneak aways.
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Exes and O’s by Amy Lea
After years of romance books and heartbreaks, Tara Chen wants to find love again. Modern dating apps, however, have ruined the meet cutes she has read about. Tara decides that she wants a second chance romance to sweep her off her feet so she enlists her brand new roommate, who happens to also be a firefighter, Trevor Metcalfe, to help her reconnect with her exes. But what happens when your dating wingman starts to outshine the romantic prospects?
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Just For The Summer by Abby Jimenez
Both Justin and Emma have the same curse. Everyone they date finds their soulmate after they break up. They decide that dating each other will cancel it out. A summer fling in an adorable cottage on a lake is the perfect cure. Real life forces Justin and Emma to navigate complicated issues including their budding feelings for each other.
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One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
This is the perfect follow up for Every Year After, featuring a character from the novel as our MMC. Alice spent a summer with her grandmother when she was seventeen. This is the summer that she fell in love with photography after photographing three teenagers smiling together. After years building a successful career Nan breaks her hip and they decide to spend a summer back at the lake in Barry’s Bay. What Alice isn’t expecting is to see one of the smiling teenagers, Charlie Florek.
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Friends to Lovers by Sally Blakely
Joni and Ren have been best friends since they were kids. After work places them at opposite ends of the country, they create a plan to stay close. They will always be each other’s wedding dates. The plan is working until someone crosses a line, ruining the friendship. Now Joni is faced with her sister’s wedding and having to fake a relationship with Ren. After spending so much time apart and being back together again, Joni is rethinking her life without Ren.
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In Your Dreams by Sarah Adams
Madison Walker is following her dreams of success in the culinary world in New York. She certainly is not thinking about returning home to Rome, Kentucky. That is until she receives a job offer from her brother’s best friend, James Huxley, who is opening a new restaurant in their hometown. James has secretly been in love with her for years but Madison has never given him a second thought. As they work to launch the restaurant, James attempts to make Madison see him differently.
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Room to Breathe by Kasie West
When Indy’s life crumbles, she puts up a front so no one knows that she’s losing her three best friends, Beau, Ava, and Caroline. Now they are more like strangers to her, especially Beau. When Indy and Beau find themselves physically stuck in a school bathroom together, they have to face what happened between them and what tore their friendship apart. Maybe they’ll be able to become friends again or maybe they’ll become more.
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The Bridge Back to You by Riss M. Neilson
Olivia owes her culinary success and her first love to Celia’s Place, the family run restaurant she worked at as a young chef. She loved the owner and her son Carmello, but had an itch that staying in one place couldn’t scratch. When Carmello’s mother passes leaving the restaurant to not only him but Olivia as well, he plans to buy her shares and move on. Olivia, however, returns, wanting to help run the restaurant. As he tries to drive Olivia away, she sees an opportunity to finally grow roots. As the pair take on the restaurant together, that first love feeling gets a chance at revival, but will they replay the good parts, or will it end as it did the first time?
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For Our Next Song by Jessica James
Glitter Bats’ keyboardist, Jane Mercer, has had feelings for her bandmate and best friend, Keeley Cunningham, for a long time. Jane can’t make a move though unless she wants her sexuality known by the media. The bandmates focus on making music until repressed feelings cause a massive argument and silence between the two. Their music forces them to get over the argument and pushes them closer together. Their feelings for one another erupt into a secret romance that they have to navigate in addition to their music and their fame.
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The Name Game by Beth O’Leary
Charlie has been lost and grieving so she jumps at the chance to work on the remote Isle of Ormer. Jones has just gone through a breakup and wants to leave his city life behind so he travels to Ormer to escape. There’s a huge problem when one woman and one man both show up claiming to be the Charlie Jones hired as a farm-shop manager. Who is the real Charlie Jones and what are they supposed to do?
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Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan
Former child star, Andy Ducharme, is hiding in her new life working in a flower shop in coastal New England. She ran away from Hollywood and from her ex-girlfriend and ex-costar, Nikki Price. When Nikki announces she is going to write a tell-all book about their childhood starring on the Nik and Andy Show, Andy texts her for the first time in a long time. Andy is not expecting Nikki to actually show up at the flower shop and is especially not expecting Nikki to want to face their loose ends.
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Star-Crossed Summer by Devon Daniels
Scarlett Everhart is one of Hollywood’s leading actresses. She rose to fame after filming The Lost Letter with Ryder Perry. The romantic drama movie they filmed caused audiences to fall in love with the story while Scarlett and Ryder were falling in love in real life. Their passionate but brief relationship tore Scarlett’s heart apart and made her entirely career driven. When the former lovers end up in the town where they fell in and out of love, sparks ignite again but Scarlett and Ryder must face what tore them apart all those years ago.
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Shows + Films
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Belly Conklin spends every summer with her family in the East Coast beach town, Cousins. Her mom’s best friend, Susannah, owns a beach house where Belly, her brother, and Susannah’s two sons have grown up visiting. Everything changes the summer that Belly turns 16 and is finally noticed by Susannah’s sons.
People We Meet on Vacation
Poppy and Alex met their freshmen year of college and became best friends despite being total opposites. They may live in different places now, but they see each other every summer for a vacation. Their close knit friendship remains platonic until one fateful summer that changes everything.
Surviving Summer
After getting kicked out of school in Brooklyn, Summer Torres is sent to spend the summer in a small beach town in Australia. She expects to hate it, but between surfing, friendships, and unexpected romance, she slowly finds a place where she feels she belongs.
Along for the Ride
During the summer before college, Auden is spending time with her father and his new family in the small beach town, Colby. She meets a fellow insomniac, Eli, who is determined to help Auden finally experience teenage fun after focusing on academics for so long.
One Day
Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew meet the night of their university graduation. They form a deep friendship from staying up and talking the night they meet. The story visits them once a year on the date they met for twenty years walking the audience through their careers, romances, and heartbreaks.
Young Royals
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden is sent to the elite Hilerska boarding school as a result of a public scandal. At Hilerska, he falls in love with another student, Simon Eriksson, and must navigate the pressures of royalty and his love for Simon.
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