Meghan Markle and Prince Harry could have exited the podcast area, however they’re nonetheless making content material for Netflix. The Duke and Ducchess of Sussex’s Archewell Productions has acquired the rights to Carley Fortune‘s greatest promoting romance novel Meet Me on the Lake, which bears a passing resemblance to Meghan and Harry’s personal love story.
“I’m so thrilled about working with Netflix and Archewell to convey Meet Me on the Lake to the display,” stated Fortune in a press release to The Impartial. “Will and Fern’s love story is pricey to my coronary heart, and I can’t think about a extra good partnership.”
Launched on Could 2nd, Meet Me on the Lake debuted at primary on the New York Instances bestsellers listing for paperback commerce fiction. Fortune’s second novel was printed by Penguin Random Home, which additionally printed Prince Harry’s massively profitable autobiography, Spare, this previous January. Markle, too, has a connection to Penguin Random Home: her youngsters’s e-book, The Bench, was printed by a Random Home imprint, Random Home Books for Younger Readers, in June of 2021.
Meet Me on the Lake follows two strangers, Will and Fern, on a daylong journey the place, per The Impartial, “they make a promise one retains and the opposite breaks, with life-changing results.” The novel takes place in Toronto—the place Meghan was taking pictures Fits when she first met Prince Harry—and the couple discover one another of their thirties, which can also be when Harry met Meghan. One of many novel’s protagonists misplaced their mom in a automobile accident, very like Prince Harry—whose mom, Princess Diana, died in a automobile crash when he was 12 years outdated.
In June, Meghan and Harry’s Archewell Audio mutually agreed to half methods with Spotify, after only a single season of Markle’s podcast Archetypes. Whereas the reportedly $15 million Spotify partnership fell aside, Archewell’s relationship with Netflix goes robust. “We worth our partnership with Archewell Productions,” a Netflix spokesperson advised PEOPLE following the Spotify information. “Harry & Meghan was Netflix’s greatest documentary debut ever, and we’ll proceed to work collectively on quite a lot of initiatives, together with the upcoming documentary sequence Coronary heart of Invictus.”
“I by no means thought I’d be making this announcement, however since I’m, it feels becoming that I’m doing it from the cottage the place all of it started,” wrote Fortune on Instagram. “I’m thrilled to verify that I’m teaming up with Netflix and Archewell productions on the adaption of Meet Me on the Lake. Will and Fern’s love story is pricey to my coronary heart, and I can’t think about a extra good partnership. Penning this e-book was an amazing private problem, and to see it acknowledged on this means is really unimaginable.”
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