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Butterfly Summer by Toni De Palma

Narrated by Theresa Mastrobuono

 

Genre: Coming-of-age, family ties, first love, LGBTQ matters, and/or self discovery/ acceptance

Tour Dates: 21st - 25th May 2026

Publication Date: 1st July 2025

Standalone Novel

Estimated Run Time - 7 hours 22 minutes

Formats available: UK/ US Audible Codes

Types of post available: Review Only

Author Content Warning: Reference to mental illness and implied suicide. Not an intrinsic part of the story, but has significance to the main character.

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​​Hollywood producer for the Bride-to-Be franchise, Anna is on top of her game. She’s helped generations of women navigate the ups and downs of romance. Ironic, since her own love life is a mess.

 

When the Bride-to-Be finale is relocated to Ischia in Italy, Anna plans to use the opportunity to settle some family affairs. And perhaps solve an old mystery of her own. Delia.

 

Decades before, at the age of seventeen, Anna had spent a summer with her aunt on the lush island. Far from an idyllic vacation, she made few friends and learned her aunt had been hiding secrets from the family.

 

Now she’s going back to sell her aunt’s house and finish up the show’s season finale.

 

As the crew get ready to roll the cameras, all havoc breaks loose. The newest bride-to-be is missing. The groom’s partying has been all over social media. And the sale of the house is shrouded in mystery, with an anonymous buyer.

 

Both Anna’s personal and professional lives crash in on her. With only hours left until the finale, Anna must find a solution for the show. And face the events that still haunt her from that long ago summer.

About Toni De Palma

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Toni De Palma is the multi-published author of six novels. Her first novel, Under the Banyan Tree, was selected as a Kirkus New Voices Pick and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Toni holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College and is a 2008 and 2026 recipient of a New Jersey Arts Fellowship in Prose. Toni's writing interests extend to fiction, memoir, plays and screenplays. In December 2019, Toni directed her first short film, Marty's Calling, adapted from one of her short plays.

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Social Media Links

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Website:  https://www.tonidepalmabooks.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toni.depalma

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/writertoni/