Tuesday, 6 May 2025

👙 Carley Fortune 🌞 ONE GOLDEN SUMMER 🌺 Barry's Bay #2 💜

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ONE GOLDEN SUMMER
Carley Fortune

• 6/8 May 2025
• can be read as a standalone
Barry's Bay #2
(Sam's Brother Charlie from book #1)

★★★★★
4.9 Stars

A radiant, new escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune

I never anticipated Charlie Florek.

Good things happen at the lake. That's what Alice's grandmother says, and it's true. Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen--it's where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life.

Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she's most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately though, she's been itching for something more, and when Nan falls and breaks her hip, Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place, Barry's Bay. But as soon as they settle in, their peace is disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow boat, and the man driving it.

Charlie Florek was nineteen when Alice took his photo from afar. Now he's all grown up--a shameless flirt, who manages to make Nan laugh and Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice's soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart.

Because Alice sees people--that's why she is so good at what she does--but she's never met someone who looks and sees her right back.

*Charlie is the brother from Every Summer After!







Alice + Charlie

Alice is a photographer in Toronto. She's a bit burned out at the moment.
Her grandmother got a new hip and Nan is also not as happy as she usually is.
Enter Barry's Bay. Alice remembers being very happy at that lake house as a teenager many years ago. That place and the people in front of her lense made her want to be a photographer. So, she packs up Nan and off we go.

Charlie.
We remember him as Sam's big brother.
He's taking some time off from his trader job in the city.
And he's still the same super hot and fun flirty guy he used to be.
Alice and Charlie start an amazing friendship.
But it'll only be a summer lake friendship because Charlie can't/won't do anything long lasting.

Will there be a happy end for our darlings?? 

READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT!



Adorable!

I loved this!
We already loved Charlie in the first book. He was such a flirty and fun guy. Of course we also hated him a bit by the end too.
But he can make up for it now.
And he did. He is so amazing. He's still super hot and flirty. But he's also so sweet and nice and sad and ugh. He's just perfect.
And Alice - she's finally finding herself again with Charlie and the lake and her camera and ... it's just so adorable to watch them spend this amazing summer at the lake.
But all summers come to an end ...
Will they make it? 
Charlie is convinced he can't have a happily ever after.
Is Alice strong enough to fight for it? For him?

This was an amazing summer romance with so many funny and sweet and sparky and heartbreaking moments. I loved every word and I so want to see the TV show!

ONE GOLDEN SUMMER was such a sweet and adorable and funny and summery and lakey love story .... just beautiful! Run to your nearest book dealer for your own Charlie - he'll be sold out in no time!




 Links to the Book & Author 

 

 Barry's Bay Book #1
 


  



 


Stalking Carley




Carley Fortune is the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER. Her second book, MEET ME AT THE LAKE, comes out May 2, 2023. It’s a breathtaking love story about two strangers who come together when they need each other most. Once, in their early twenties, and again a decade later.

Carley is an award-winning journalist and worked as an editor at some of Canada’s top publications, including The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Toronto Life, and The Grid. She was most recently the Executive Editor of Refinery29 Canada.

Carley spent her young life in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, and in Barry’s Bay, a tiny lakeside town in rural Ontario and the setting for EVERY SUMMER AFTER.

EVERY SUMMER AFTER was an instant international bestseller and Carley’s debut novel.

Carley lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons.