In Every Future, It's Us

by Katie Naymon

When childhood neighbours and best friends Florence Parker and Tom Sinclair were on the precipice of graduating college, they made a pact they hoped would link them every year at their families' lavish New Year's Eve party, they'd each write five secret predictions about the other's year ahead. Whoever got the most guesses correct would make one big life decision for the other.

So it went for nearly a decade-until the final year, when one letter shattered their friendship.

Now, Tom and Florence are home for the holidays and haven't spoken in over a year. To keep up appearances, they're forced to plan the New Year's Eve party together. But hidden in the tense silences and charged interactions is a wealth of history they can't escape, and feelings they've never spoken aloud.

It's their last opportunity to make amends before Florence moves away, but are they willing to take a chance on a future they can't predict?

Genres: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Adult, Fiction

400 pages, Paperback

Expected publication December 1, 2026

About the author

Katie Naymon lives and writes in Stockholm, Sweden. Originally from Northeast Ohio, she got her BA in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and her MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. YOU BETWEEN THE LINES is her first novel.

Reviews

[ahmeeka]

the best way to store an early copy of this is to send it to my postal address

[Val]

2026 BELONGS TO BEST FRIENDS

KATIE IS SCARED. THE PUBLISHERS ARE SCARED. THEY'RE TELLING ME IT WON'T BE HERE UNTIL 2026 BUT I'M SIMPLY TOO SEATED. YOU'LL PRY THIS FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

[Jin]

I read this authors debut and was HOOKED. This one sounds equally as amazing, can’t wait

[Paula · Rating 5 out of 5]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you SO MUCH to Katie for allowing me to be a part of this traveling ARC tour! 🫶🏻

I absolutely INHALED this book in less than 24 hours.

Katie’s writing style is just so beautiful and poetic. Seriously, nobody out here does it like her!! Friends to lovers can be hit or miss, but let me tell you, I knew I could trust her, and this was a HIT for me as expected. Everything about this was expertly weaved together. An absolutely phenomenal job!

As with YBTL, I really saw myself in the FMC. Struggling with direction, self-doubt, self-confidence. I really needed to read this especially now in this season of transition that I’m in where I’ve just made a pretty big career-shifting decision. Seeing myself in Florence has really helped me to feel more confident in my decision. And that’s what I love about Katie’s writing. She writes flawed, relatable characters who are easy to connect with and also allow for a sort of introspection as well. I feel seen. I adore her writing, I’ll never shut up about her, and this second novel has just solidified her as an auto-buy author for me.

This is the PERFECT book to read when you are in that limbo week between Christmas and New Years. Add to your TBRs now, preorder now, whatever it takes to make sure you don’t forget about it come December 1st!! 💜

[Lauren Okie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Here’s the thing about romance novels written by Katie Naymon. Every single sentence is poetry, even if it’s not technically a poetry book. Like, the way she connects words, the way she describes light, the way she builds texture, and always, always tells the truth? Ugh. I get mad. It physically upsets me. I become sick with envy. Why can’t I mash together words with hyphens? Why can’t the rest of us do it? Whyyyyy?????

Anyway, here’s what you need to know about IN EVERY FUTURE, IT’S US. Tom is a national treasure. Within the first few pages, I sort of understood the shape of him: a special, brilliant, detail-oriented man that not everybody gets to have or know or understand. And Florence! Gah. She’s so relatable: smart as a whip, but directionless. Brilliant, but watching life pass her by. Watching her genius self get lapped by people with less talent and more drive is heartbreaking because it’s relatable. Because it’s ugly and true and it happens all the time.

And then let’s talk about the premise. (!!!!!) You want to bottle up a million New Year’s Eve sequins, then throw them in a drink shaker with cold-but-buzzing holiday cheer and Taylor Swift’s RUIN THE FRIENDSHIP? You’re not a monster. Of course you do. Everybody wants this!!!

This book has it all. It’s hot. It’s festive. It’s full of yearning and selling yourself short and co-dependency and fear and big life choices you feel your body asking for but are too terrified or soft or scared to say aloud or make. It’s friends-to-lovers on the glitteriest, coziest, sexiest night of the year, over and over again, and you will be LITERALLY SCREAMING “JUST KISS ALREADY” so many times you’ll lose count. 

I can’t think of a single person who wouldn’t like this book. It’s got everything I want in a romance, and line-level work that’s singular, lyrical, and—not by accident—glittering.

[Clare Gilmore · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Flor. It's December and I'm in love with you."
"The way I want you isn't friendly. I don't think it ever has been."
"'He told me he loved me. Can you imagine?' 'I can imagine.'"
"There's not a thing you could've asked of me that I wouldn't have done."

Mark my words: IN EVERY FUTURE, IT’S US by Katie Naymon will live forevermore in the friends-to-lovers hall of fame. Florence and Tom are the textbook definition of an end-all-be-all romance, and Katie’s portrayal of their relationship evolution is the textbook definition of perfect. Her sophomore novel is compulsively readable, with more sparks than a frayed live wire and truly masterful character growth. This book seals the deal that I would follow one of Katie’s love stories anywhere.

[Cassie ≽^•⩊•^≼]

I loved loved loved the author's debut novel, You Between the Lines. Am waiting (im)patiently til December for this.

[monica ✨ romantasyreader]

I’m sat

[Camryn · Rating 5 out of 5]

so good it's sickening