Discover The Secret of Hunter Mountain

The mystery lives on

For the fans of The DaVinci Code and The Discovery of Witches: the next book in the thrilling series The Red Amaryllis.

When an Austrian witch Gerlinde discovers a prophecy about a hidden Templar treasure in her 300-year-old Book of Shadows, she travels to America on a quest to find the sacred items. As Faith-Keeper of an ancient Goddess religion lost to history, it’s her calling to raise the divine feminine energies in the world.

The cryptic prophecy tells of early settlers who came to America to escape persecution from the Church, carrying with them the lost Templar secrets about the Grail, making peace with the First Nations people.

Gerlinde enlists the help of her cousin Sarah, an American photojournalist. Together, the women follow the book’s clues, starting at the North Eastern Women’s Herbal Festival and traveling to Hunter Mountain, NY and eventually to the Pacific Northwest.

While Sarah and Gerlinde discover many friends on their quest, they also find themselves hunted by a far-right Christian group who wants the Templar treasure for themselves. Can Gerlinde and Sarah discover the sacred elements before the worst happens?

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Meet the Author

Julie Anne Stratton was born in Seattle, WA and grew up in New York City and Syracuse, NY. She spent most of her childhood and teen years reading books. Julie loved to explore worlds opened up by the page of a good story. When she was a child, her family put on elaborate marionette shows of their favorite stories for the neighborhood children. Julie fell in love with the role of the wicked witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz.

During the summer her father, a scientist, took her and her family to Cape Cod and Friday Harbor. These trips awoke a deep passion for the ocean and nature. She spent hours on the beach writing plays, journals and poetry.

She had her first flute lesson at ten, which eventually led to her life-long career as a classical musician. Julie studied at SUNY Brockport for year before leaving the US for Europe where she attended the College of Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. Instead of coming back to the states, she married and had a family there, loving the European life style. As a professional musician she collaborated with her chamber group Cosi von Donne producing two shows: one performing stories about women composers, and the other a re-telling of the Medea story.

While raising her three daughters, Julie stumbled on the book, Ich bin eine Hexe (I am a witch) by Gerlinde Schilcher. She traveled to mountains of upper Austria where Gerlinde introduced her to Goddess worship. She was hooked and read as many books about witchcraft as she could find.

After living in Europe for 20 years, she returned home to the States, where she attained her masters in music education. Also, she began writing again.

Her passion is writing fiction about strong women and continuing to practice her earth-based reclaiming Goddess religion.