Meet Me at the Lake

A Novel

Meet Me at the Lake

Carley Fortune

Meet Me at the Lake

Carley Fortune

romance
4.1 (728 ratings)
41 chapters 128K reads Updated 2026-07-05
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A Most Anticipated Book by Today.com ∙ Oprah Daily ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ SheReads ∙ Zibby Mag ∙ Her Campus ∙ The Everygirl ∙ and more!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 bestselling author of Every Summer After.Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. 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 the city. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn’t.At thirty-two, Fern’s life doesn’t look at all how she once imagined it...

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