

By:Carley Fortune
The Barry’s Bay books by Carley Fortune are nostalgic, emotional summer romances set around a lake town in Ontario, where love, memory, and the pull of the past shape each character’s life. Every Summer After follows Persephone and Sam through a long, complicated first love and the years that separate them, while One Golden Summer shifts to Alice and Charlie, bringing a fresh friends-to-lovers romance to the same setting with a softer, more reflective feel. These are technically interconnected standalones but Carley herself suggests you read ESA before OGS because OGS has spoilers otherwise.
6 ratings3 reviews




QA fixture review by reader5 on barry-s-bay. Deterministic body.

Comfort reading done properly: a lake, a summer, and a first love that everybody involved has been polite about for far too long. The pacing sags in the middle act, but the last fifty pages earned the tears they were clearly after.
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