{"id":101841,"date":"2025-08-27T22:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101841\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:39:09","slug":"blockbuster-canadian-romance-author-carley-fortune-announces-5th-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101841\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster Canadian romance author Carley Fortune announces 5th novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian romance author Carley Fortune has announced that her fifth novel, Our Perfect Storm, will be published on May 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The novel centres around best friends Frankie\u00a0and George. When Frankie is dumped on the morning of her wedding,\u00a0George convinces her to take him on her Vancouver Island honeymoon instead.<\/p>\n<p>Frankie and George have been close since they were eight years old, but their tempers tend to get\u00a0in the way. This trip to Tofino is a chance to repair\u00a0that \u2014\u00a0and keep Frankie from wallowing. But the more time they spend together, the more they realize that something might have been brewing between them all along.<\/p>\n<p>The cover for Our Perfect Storm was revealed on the television program\u00a0Good Morning America Aug. 27.<\/p>\n<p>The title will be the first of the\u00a0No. 1 New York Times bestselling author&#8217;s books\u00a0to\u00a0be published in hardcover.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune\u00a0is a Toronto-based writer and journalist who has worked as an editor for Refinery29, The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine and Toronto Life. Her previous books are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/one-golden-summer-by-carley-fortune-1.7447486\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One Golden Summe<\/a>r,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/every-summer-after-1.6464929\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Every Summer After<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/this-summer-will-be-different-by-carley-fortune-1.7154915\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This Summer Will Be Different<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/meet-me-at-the-lake-by-carley-fortune-1.6739294\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meet Me at the Lake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A Black woman with albinism holds a pink book. She is wearing a monochrome red outfit with sheer sleeves. \"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mirian-njoh-champions-meet-me-at-the-lake.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7771084337349397\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Mirian Njoh championed Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune on Canada Reads 2024.  (CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Meet Me at the Lake was the first romance title to be a contender for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/canadareads\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada Reads<\/a>. In\u00a02024, it was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/canadareads\/mirian-njoh-is-bringing-romance-to-canada-reads-with-carley-fortune-s-meet-me-at-the-lake-1.7072542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">championed by Mirian Njoh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this summer, the cast of\u00a0Every Year After, the television adaptation of Fortune&#8217;s bestselling novel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/every-summer-after-1.6464929\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Every Summer After<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0announced.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dual-timeline\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/every-summer-after-1.6464929\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Every Summer After<\/a>\u00a0follows\u00a0Percy and Sam, two childhood friends whose close bond was shattered by a fateful moment that forced them apart \u2014 and the complicated love story that unfolds when they&#8217;re reunited years later at a funeral. The book is set in Ontario cottage country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon Prime Video series will feature British actor Sadie Soverall as Percy and American actor Matt Cornett as Sam, Fortune said in a newsletter to fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian romance author Carley Fortune has announced that her fifth novel, Our Perfect Storm, will be published on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-101841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}