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BUT I also try to avoid too many reviews in fear of spoilers. But I hadn’t seen any for Meet Me at the Lake before I started reading.

Sometimes a few negative early reviews will do the trick. “I am happy-Will and I spend every moment we can together, and it feels so easy and right. If anyone has any tips, I’d love to hear them. It’s too much to live up to! I haven’t found a good way to lower those expectations before I dive in. My expectations are unrealistically high, and I’m always longing for those same feelings I had when I read the previous books: the magic, the all-consuming angst. I’m starting to feel like a broken record when I’m writing about the books that follow some of my all-time favorite books. Can she do the same for him? My thoughtsĪs I sit here trying to write a review for Meet Me at the Lake, the second novel by Carley Fortune, the author of one of my favorite books from last year, a long, slow sigh slips out from between my lips. Will is hiding something, and Fern’s not sure she wants to know what it is.īut ten years ago, Will Baxter rescued Fern. But how could she possibly trust this expensive-suit wearing mirage who seems nothing like the young man she met all those years ago. Will may be the only person who understands what Fern’s going through. To her surprise, it comes in the form of Will, who arrives nine years too late, with a suitcase in tow and an offer to help on his lips. The place is in disarray, her ex-boyfriend’s the manager, and Fern doesn’t know where to begin. Instead of living in the city, Fern’s back home, running her mother’s Muskoka lakeside resort–something she vowed never to do. Will didn’t.Īt thirty-two, Fern’s life doesn’t look at all how she once imagined it would. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in Toronto.

A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects, in this breathtaking new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of Every Summer After.įern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter.