Her debut novel was turned into a Prime Video series. Now, Carley Fortune is reveling in the romance renaissance
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Relevance
9/25
Freshness
8/25
Authority
25/20
Brand Signal
9/15
Depth
4/15
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When Carley Fortune started writing her debut novel Every Summer After , she had one goal: to create something for herself. Frustrated by corporate pressures, the then-executive editor of Refinery29 Canada returned to the lake where she grew up. Everything that followed—five best-selling books published in five years, two projects in development at Netflix, a television adaptation charting in the


