Julie Pepper lives in Northern California with her two children. She is a recent Master of Arts graduate of San Francisco State University in Communication Studies and works for Tikkun magazine seeking to heal and transform the world through love, kindness and generosity of spirit. Julie is a playwright and has been writing plays for the last ten years. This is Julie's first novel. She is currently writing a sequel which takes place fifteen years later entitled Stirred Up but not Shaken.