Every Year After will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 8 before debuting on Prime Video a couple of days later, bringing Carley Fortune’s bestselling romance back to the screen in eight episodes. The series adapts Every Summer After and its sequel One Golden Summer, the books that turned a cottage-town love story into a TV project with real momentum.
Sadie Soverall plays Persephone Percy Fraser, with Matt Cornett as Sam, Michael Bradway as Charlie Florek and Elisha Cuthbert as Sue. The story follows Percy through the summers of her teens at her family’s cottage in Barry’s Bay, Ontario, where she befriends next-door neighbors Sam and Charlie and where her friendship with Sam slowly becomes something more. Years later, she returns for Sue’s funeral, reopening the past that the series is built around.
The project has been long enough in motion that the casting became part of the story. Amy B. Harris, who has an overall deal at Amazon MGM Studios, was approached by executives early last year to take over the adaptation. She said she received the book on a Thursday and finished it within 24 hours, describing herself as completely absorbed in the world Fortune created, the love story between Sam and Percy and its sense of optimism and second chances. By Saturday, Harris had agreed to lead it.
That quick turnaround mattered because Every Summer After arrived with a built-in audience and a strong track record. Fortune wrote the novel in the summer of 2020, inspired by her upbringing in Barry’s Bay, and after its publication in 2022 it spent 16 weeks on bestseller list. The sequel and the series now extend that world, with Fortune attached as an executive producer.
The adaptation also faced the usual test that comes with a beloved book: whether the casting feels true to readers. Fortune said she was shown the chemistry tapes and called them unreal, adding that there was never a moment when she thought any of the choices were wrong. The producers gave each pairing of actors 10 minutes together in a separate break, a small window that helped settle the central relationships before cameras rolled.
Fortune said she believed it was better for an author not to sit in the rooms where every decision is made, and that once she saw the tapes she knew the project was in the right hands. That answer matters because this is not just another book-to-screen translation. Every Year After is trying to stretch a familiar love story into a series that can keep going for years to come, and its first public test arrives on June 8 in Tribeca.
