Back in 2022, Carley Fortune read an excerpt from Every Summer After at a book event for the first time, and the audience gasped when Sam Florek told Percy Fraser, “You came home.” Fortune explained, “When I got to the end, to the line, ‘You came home,’ the room gasped, and it was kind of my first realization of how big of an emotional chord this story was hitting people.”
Now, four years later, Every Summer After has been brought to life as Every Year After on Prime Video. Ahead of the series premiere on June 10, Fortune, who is also an executive producer, sat down with Swooon, revealing that Sam and Percy’s reunion, the same scene that struck a chord with readers years ago, was the scene she was the most excited—and nervous—to see come to life. As she put it, “It really came home in the end.”