Darlene N. Bocek

Darlene Bocek and her family live in Izmir, Turkey. She and her family are Marvel MCU, early Star Wars, and Twilight Zone fans and her favorite MCU character is Rocket Raccoon. Besides being a pastor’s wife, she is mom to four wonderful young adults, each one her most favorite.

The family lives on an olive farm overlooking the Aegean Sea. To date, they have nine  sixteen twenty-four cats, three giant dogs, two cute Havanese doggos and one African Grey parrot. (Check HERE for pictures!) Most pets are named for movie characters.

Making the Bible accessible, the main message of her stories, is dear to their family’s heart.  If she had free time, Darlene would enjoy cooking, gardening, painting, sewing, and training her wild animals.

The Ray

The Ray

When Baren is forced down the One-Way Alley, from which no one returns, he plans to change things in the robot-run dystopian city he's forced to slave for.

But he does not expect to find the mysterious Ray and its off-switch.

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Trunk of Scrolls

Trunk of Scrolls

STRAP ON YOUR SANDALS.
YOU'RE GOING BACK IN TIME!

Post Apocalyptic Antioch, 526 AD

The earth shakes like a beast awakening. Now Antioch, once the glory of Rome, lies in ruins—a broken-backed man that cannot stand.

Young Byzantine nobleman Marcellus takes up sword and wits to protect his neighbors, Byziana and her young siblings, on a seven hundred mile journey to Constantinople to find their missing father and restore their lost fortune.

A young nobleman. A dark secret. A trunk of Scripture scrolls. 

Kyrie Eleison. God have mercy.

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The Last Noel: Reuben’s Story (A Family Drama of Loss and Love at Christmas)

The Last Noel: Reuben’s Story (A Family Drama of Loss and Love at Christmas)

Author: Darlene N. Bocek
Series: Return to Me, Book 1
Genres: Paranormal, Speculative
Tag: HOPE

Firefighter Reuben Morales used to love the holidays. But late on Halloween night, devastating news shatters his world—his sister Vera has died. Assaulted by grief and guilt, unrelenting questions beseige him: Why did God let her die without faith? And could I have done more to save her?

As Christmas approaches, Reuben reluctantly takes charge of the town's struggling Christmas pageant, but the season only deepens his troubles. Fires rage across the town, set by an arsonist no one can catch. When the arsonist makes it personal, attacking Reuben’s own house, his world feels like it’s going up in flames.

Just when the backdraft is about to hit, Reuben runs into Vera’s spirit again—and everything changes.

Can the meaning of Christmas—and the truths revealed through the pageant and the fire—help Reuben rediscover the hope he thought was lost? Or will the questions and the sorrow consume everything he holds dear?

A novel of family, love, and hope that rises from life’s ashes.

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Me, Myself, and It: A Ghost Story

Me, Myself, and It: A Ghost Story

Author: Darlene N. Bocek
Series: Return to Me, Book 2
Genres: Paranormal, Speculative

Vega Morales has everything in her favor...a promising future, a handsome boyfriend, a winning personality...until she passes a graveyard and gets tagged by a ghost that never lets go.

Will the ghost get what it wants? Or will Vega lose everything she values? The battle is real and it is not fiction.

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That Darn Tree !

That Darn Tree !

Author: Darlene N. Bocek
Genre: Apologetics

Sometimes we just need answers. And the biggest one glaring everyone in the face is this: Why did God put a tree in the Garden, anyway? If he hadn't, we never would have had the Fall into Sin, this world wouldn't have suffering and pain, and we'd be already living in paradise! What's the big idea?

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The Gem Bible Study Method, Blue
150 Faith-Building Big Questions

150 Faith-Building Big Questions

Author: Darlene N. Bocek
Genre: Apologetics

A compilation of years of online answers to the biggest, common-man problems about God, about the Bible, and about the Christian faith. This collection will build your faith, answer by answer, as you consider the foundations of our faith: Scripture, the creeds and confessions, and the "Book of Nature."

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Silver and Sawdust

Silver and Sawdust

Trapped under fur. To survive he must break every law known to man. One hope remains.

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Trunk of Scrolls: Paths of Faith and Fire

Trunk of Scrolls: Paths of Faith and Fire

In a world where everything they once knew lies in ruins...

After a catastrophic earthquake devastates ancient Antioch, young nobleman Marcellus and his beloved Byziana embark on a desperate journey across a land where danger lurks at every turn.

She dreams of finding safety in the arms of the powerful Belisarius, a man who promises her the world… but Marcellus knows a dark secret that could destroy everything she hopes for.

As they face relentless enemies—from ruthless bandits to the untamed wilderness—Byziana struggles with a faith she feels has abandoned her, while Marcellus fights to keep her from a path that could lead to her doom.

But when they finally reach Constantinople, they uncover a chilling conspiracy that threatens not just their lives, but the very soul of the empire.

In a race against time, they must unravel the secrets of the ancient Scrolls… or lose everything to the shadows closing in around them.

Prepare for an epic adventure where love and loyalty are tested, faith is challenged, and the only way to survive is to discover the truth hidden within…

Trunk of Scrolls: Paths of Faith and Fire.

This summer, the past will be shattered, and the future will be forged in fire.

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The House of Hidden Faces, or The Invisible Landlord

The House of Hidden Faces, or The Invisible Landlord

When pregnant Gracie Bennett and her two little boys are thrown out on the street, she finds a job as a housekeeper at a boarding house belonging to a strange hooded man. Soon she learns that not all is as it seems with this man and his magical house.
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Escape from the Black Lagoon
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