Canadian Carley Fortune’s best-selling romance novels are hot properties.
Streaming giants Prime Video and Netlflix have adapted or are in the process of adapting four of her novels — Every Summer After, One Golden Summer, This Summer Will Be Different and Meet Me at the Lake.
Who will buy the adaption rights to her fifth novel Our Perfect Storm, set in Tofino, British Columbia?
Frankie and George have been best friends since they were eight years old. Over two decades they’ve clashed but always come back together. On the eve of Frankie’s wedding, George arrives to be her best man. When Frankie’s fiancé dumps her the next morning, George suggests they use the honeymoon tickets to Tofino. In this remote setting, long-suppressed romantic feelings surface, forcing them to transform their bond or lose it completely.
Prime Video Adaptions:
Prime Video’s adaption of Carley Fortune’s first novel Every Summer After into the streaming series Every Year After has been a big hit and is renewed for a second season.
Her debut novel was inspired by Carley Fortune’s teenage diaries of summers spent at the family home in Barry’s Bay in Ontario’s cottage country , but the series couldn’t shoot there so it changed the real Barry’s Bay in Ontario to a fictional Barry’s Bay in British Columbia.
Related: Prime’s New Romance Series EVERY YEAR AFTER Debuts: Filmed on Bowen Island BC
Howe Sound’s Minaty Bay and Bowen Island became the primary filming locations for Barry’s Bay, BC.
Percy Fraser (Sadie Soverall) and Sam Florek (Matt Cornett) fall in love over six childhood summers together at Barry’s Bay,: spending afternoons on the water and nights working in the family restaurant and curling up together with books — stories for her and medical textbooks for him. Once inseparable, their romance falls spectacularly apart. A decade later Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral. Their connection is undeniable but is their love bigger than the mistakes of their past?
Related: Prime’s EVERY YEAR AFTER Back to Barry’s Bay aka Bowen Island BC for Season 2
Sadie Soverall. who plays Percy, is so, so talented, and Matt Cornett, who plays Sam, his audition made me cry; he can run through so many emotions within a scene. Michael Bradway just felt so Charlie, he’s so funny. And the chemistry is so good, not just between Sadie and Matt but also between Matt and Michael, that brother relationship. — Carley Fortune to the Toronto Star.
Carley Fortune cameos in Every Year After.
Season 2 will adapt her fourth novel and Barry Bay sequel One Golden Summer which tells Sam’s older brother Charlie’s love story.
Photographer Alice Everly (yet to be cast) returns to Barry’s Bay to escape a breakup and care for her grandmother where she reconnects with Charlie Florek (Michael Bradway) — whose yellow speedboat featured in one of her earliest photographs – and battles their undeniable chemistry.
Charlie’s yellow speedboat in Minaty Bay, BC.
Netflix Adaptions:
Netflix is adapting her third novel This Summer Will Be Different, which is set and will be filmed in Toronto and on Prince Edward Island this summer, as a 10-episode series..
Lucy is vacationing from Toronto one summer on Prince Edward Island, and meets Felix in an electric, chemistry-filled night. Only one problem: Felix is her best friend Bridget’s younger brother. On her annual return trips to P.E.I., Lucy vows to avoid Felix and his bed — easier said than done. When Bridget rushes home to P.E.I. in crisis a week before her wedding, Lucy can only follow and remind herself to protect her heart, but wonders if she really wants to do that after all.
Related: Netflix Romance THIS SUMMER WILL BE DIFFERENT Filming This Summer on Prince Edward Island
Here are the red cliffs and sandy beaches of the real Prince Edward Island.
Netflix is also developing Carley Fortune’s second novel Meet Me at the Lake, set in Toronto and at a lakeside resort in Muskoka, into a feature film.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Productions optioned the book for Netflix in 2023.
After spending a magical day together in Toronto in her twenties, Fern Brookbanks and Will Baxter made a pact to meet at her family’s Muskoka lakeside resort a year later, but he never showed up. Ten years later, a grieving Fern unexpectedly inherits the resort and reunites with Will.
