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England, 1541. An ailing Henry VIII reigns from a contested throne. In parallel story lines, The Tudor Prophecy follows two young women, Lady Alice Grantmire and Hester Vaughan, cousins who each suffer greatly from the King's unjust decrees. Lady Alice and her mother are evicted from their estate and take residence in a cottage where they earn a subsistence selling herbal remedies--until they are accused of witchcraft. After being molested by the King, Hester is summoned to her estranged father's home in Wales. There she becomes betrothed to a Welsh bard whose mentor has visions foretelling the ascendancy of Henry's second daughter, Elizabeth. When Hester encounters the eight-year-old Lady Elizabeth, the two forge a relationship whereby Hester can persuade the future queen to temper her own rule with mercy. This epic, literary tale--a Game of Thrones meets Little Women--is also for readers who loved the Wolf Hall trilogy by Booker-Prize winner Hilary Mantel.

Julie Strong is a recently retired family physician in Halifax, Nova Scotia; she has an ongoing shamanic practice where she addresses the spiritual causes of illness. Julie was born in Manchester, England, grew up in Wales, Australia, and Ireland, and emigrated to Canada in 1980. Her medical degree is from Trinity College, Dublin University, Ireland, and she holds a BA in Classics from Dalhousie University, Halifax. Her shamanism training is from the Foundation for Shamanic Studies in Marin County, California. Dr. Strong has given presentations in Canada, the US, and Europe on the subject of insanity in ancient Greek literature. She presented a three-part series on Greek mythology at Halifax Central Library in spring 2018 and also "Finding Comfort in Difficult Times," an overview of shamanism, in fall 2021. She is a lecturer with the Senior College Association of Nova Scotia (SCANS) and delivered a six-week course, The Goddess in Antiquity, in spring 2024, which emphasized humanity's need to reconnect with Nature and the Divine Feminine. Julie's essays appear in several anthologies, including Letting Go (Bacon Press Books, 2016) and Much Madness, Divinest Sense (Pottersfield Press, 2017). Her story "Alice's Bonfire" won the Budge Wilson Short Fiction Prize from the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia in 2010, and her play, Athena in Love, was awarded "best new play" in the Halifax Fringe Festival in 2012. The Tudor Prophecy is her first novel. Julie is presently working on Keeping it Together Down Under, a memoir of how she and her younger sister were transplanted from their home in the UK to an orphanage in Tasmania, Australia, in the mid-1960s. Julie, who has three grown children and three grandchildren, plays viola in an amateur string quartet and orchestra and loves dancing and pickleball.