Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett in Every Year After. Image via Prime Video By Giovana Gelhoren Published Jul 2, 2026, 12:12 AM EDT Giovana Gelhoren is a High-Trending Topics Writer at Collider, covering the most-talked-about stars, movies, and TV shows. Before joining Collider, she was a Digital News Writer at People Magazine and served as Associate Editor at SheKnows, where she honed her expertise in celebrity coverage and entertainment journalism.
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Generate a summary of this story follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Since its premiere on June 10, 2026, Prime Video's new romance series Every Year After has taken the platform by storm. Either in the top spot or at #2 worldwide, just below Off-Campus , per FlixPatrol , the series is proving that sweet comfort stories can not only deliver in quality, but can bring in millions of viewers.
But while many of these streams might've tuned in simply for the lake town romance, plenty of others came directly to Prime Video to see the adaptation of their fan-favorite, bestselling book. The eight-episode series, which stars Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett , is based on Every Summer After , a 2022 romance novel by Carley Fortune . And while this is the first novel of Fortune being adapted, another one is already underway.
In August 2023, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle purchased the rights to another one of Fortune's novels , 2023's Meet Me at the Lake , on behalf of their production company, Archewell Productions. Since then, little was shared about the project as Markle embarked on a series of other projects, including her Netflix series With Love, Meghan , and her lifestyle brand, As Ever. With that said, however, Fortune recently opened up about the project on the June 18 episode of Open Book With Jenna in a chat with Jenna Bush Hager . During the talk, Fortune said the project is “still in development," with a script "still being revised."
And while that isn't exactly the update fans were looking for, Fortune remembered the moment she entrusted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex with her story. “ I felt like they really understood the story and what mattered about the story ,” Fortune said of her "long call" with the Suits alum and Archewell film producer Tracy Ryerson . “It’s a romance, but it’s very much about a mother and daughter, too, and we talked a lot about parenthood, and also about how these love stories are about so much more. It’s a story about grief, it’s a story about mental health, and so I felt like it was in good hands with them.”
While Every Summer After and its Prime Video adaptation fit comfortably in the YA category, Meet at the Lake explores similar themes, but is a more mature, grown-up romance instead . The novel follows Fern Brookbanks and Will Baxter, two people who share a chemistry-defying day-long date in their early twenties but lose contact right after it. They even made a pact to show up one year later at the same place, but while Fern made it, Will neve…