Amy B. Harris is already looking past the first chapter of Every Year After. Ahead of the show’s June 10 premiere, the adaptation’s showrunner said she wants to keep viewers coming back to Barry’s Bay through Season 2 and beyond.

That matters now because the first season has not aired yet, and the project is already being framed as something larger than a one-off summer romance. Every Year After, which adapts Carley Fortune’s Every Summer After, opens with Sadie Soverall as Percy Fraser and Matt Cornett as Sam, then follows their reconnection across six years and one week in the Canadian lake town of Barry’s Bay.

The early emphasis on expansion also gives fans a clue about how the screen version may grow after Season 1. The second book in the series, One Golden Summer, shifts the focus toward Charlie’s love story with a new character, and Michael Bradway plays Charlie in the first season. That leaves the adaptation with a built-in path forward if the show chooses to move beyond Percy and Sam’s story.

There is, though, a catch built into the material itself. Season 1 is centered on Percy and Sam, but the next book does not simply continue that same romance; it moves the emotional center to Charlie. That means any second season would have to decide whether to stay in Barry’s Bay with familiar faces, follow the books into a new relationship, or find a way to do both without losing the thread that made the first season the entry point.

For viewers, the signal is clear: Barry’s Bay is not being treated as a setting that ends when the first love story does. The premiere on June 10 starts with one couple, but Harris has already made plain that the town, and the franchise around it, is meant to last longer than a single season.