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Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. That is the promise of Every Summer After, the debut novel that made Carley Fortune a New York Times bestseller.

It is a story of love, loss and the kind of connection that never really fades. Fortune writes about the people who shape us, for better or worse, and the places we keep returning to long after we have left them.

Known for heartfelt, character-driven stories, Carley Fortune writes about love, friendship and the moments that change us forever. Every Summer After captured readers around the world and is now a Prime original series.

On Threshing day at Basgiath War College, there is only one rule: don’t die. Cadets in the Riders Quadrant who have survived the opening months of training walk into a valley full of dragons. Some will be chosen. Some will be passed over. Some will not walk out.

Threshing is one of the defining set pieces of Fourth Wing, the first book in Rebecca Yarros’s Empyrean series. It packs the whole series into a single day: fierce loyalty, deadly rivalries, and dragons as unpredictable as they are powerful.

Basgiath trains Navarre’s soldiers, and the Riders Quadrant is its most dangerous path. Cadets compete in ruthless conditions, and the rivals around them are often as dangerous as the dragons. At Threshing, the dragons do the choosing. Strength alone does not decide who is bonded.

The world produces enough food to feed ten billion people, yet some 733 million people go hungry. Dadhiram Basumatary argues that this is not a supply crisis. It is a justice crisis. If that sentence makes you uncomfortable, he says, this book was written for you.

The Hunger Paradox is a data-driven investigation into what Basumatary calls the greatest moral contradiction of our era: a planet with agricultural surplus, where hundreds of millions still go without enough to eat.

Basumatary spent years with smallholder farmers in Nigeria, tribal communities in Odisha and urban food deserts in Dhaka to answer one question: why, in an age of abundance, does hunger still exist? His answer is not drought, overpopulation or poor yields. It is a global food system shaped by trade agreements, land grabs, commodity speculation and bureaucratic indifference, a system that keeps food profitable while keeping justice out of reach.

Nine days before her thirty-seventh birthday, Michelle Burleigh received a devastating diagnosis: she might have only hours left to live. She had spent years doubting her value and purpose, feeling she never quite “fit the mould”. In that moment she made a decision. If the universe gave her a second chance, she would live on her own terms.

That moment was the turning point. It began a journey of self-discovery, resilience and renewed belief, and she now shares that journey in her book.

The book aims to help readers choose themselves, build confidence and create a future they had not imagined possible. It is more than a story. It is a guide for anyone who has felt lost, stuck or unsure of their worth. Burleigh offers honest insights, practical tools and heartfelt encouragement to help readers embrace self-love, cultivate courage and develop the skills for lasting success.

London in the late 1780s is a city of theatres, salons, scandal sheets and gossip. Revolution is brewing across the Channel, and in the drawing rooms of the elite, a reputation can be made or destroyed in a single paragraph of a newspaper.

This is the world of Emma Donoghue’s Life Mask, a historical novel built around three real people: the celebrated comic actress Eliza Farren, the sculptor Anne Damer, and Edward Smith-Stanley, the 12th Earl of Derby.

Lord Derby, a leading Whig, is in love with Eliza Farren, but he is still married, and their relationship has to stay chaste and public. Eliza, who rose from poverty to the London stage, needs respectability to survive in high society. When she forms a close friendship with Anne Damer, a widowed artist known for her sculpture and her independence, rumours begin to circulate about the nature of Anne’s attachments to women.