Amazon’s Prime Video, the home of The Summer I Turned Pretty, is adding another romance series to its roster.
The streamer has ordered Every Year After, an adaptation of Carley Fortune’s best-selling novel Every Summer After. Leila Gerstein (Hart of Dixie, Hulu’s Saint X) is adapting the novel and will serve as showrunner, executive producing with Fortune. Amazon MGM Studios is producing.
“We are thrilled to bring the beautifully crafted story, Every Summer After, to our global Prime Video customers as Every Year After,” said Vernon Sanders, head of television at Amazon MGM Studios. “Carley Fortune’s wildly successful book is the perfect blend of heartfelt nostalgia and poignant romance. With Leila Gerstein’s vision, the audience will go through an exploration of this remarkable narrative in a way that captures its essence and emotional depth.”
Every Summer After, published in 2022, centers on Persephone “Percy” Fraser, who spent summers in a lakeside town and developed a friendship, then romance, with Sam Florek before something broke them apart. She returns years later and must confront her past.
The logline for the series reads, “Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A week to get it right. Every Year After, is a fun, sweeping, romantic story that asks the question, what if your first love actually was your soulmate?”
“Every Summer After holds a very special place in my heart and in the hearts of readers all over the world who deeply connect with Sam and Percy’s love story,” Fortune said in a statement. “I’m excited to partner with Amazon to take their journey even further — beyond the pages of the book, onto the screen, and into the hearts of audiences across the globe.”
Added Gerstein, “I am so excited for the opportunity to bring this fun, romantic story to television.”
Every Summer After has sold more than a million copies to date and was on the New York Times bestseller list for 14 weeks.
Gerstein is repped by WME, Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment and Yorn Levine. Fortune is repped by Root Literary, WME and Lichter Grossman.