Darlene Böcek and her family live in Izmir, Turkey. She and her family are 🚀 Marvel MCU, early Star Wars, and Twilight Zone fans. Her favorite MCU character is 🦝 Rocket Raccoon, because he’s brilliant with tech (and he looks like her puppy ChicaLola!)

Besides being a pastor’s wife, Darlene is mom to four wonderful young adults: one skilled dentist, two hard-working dental students, and one high school student/Turkish TikTok influencer. 

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

Since second grade, when she first heard the story of 🌋 Pompeii’s Discovery, Darlene has been intrigued by ancient history.  She loves researching history, because reading the words of people from long ago and learning about their daily lives is a powerful way to Time-travel! 🚀

She fine-tuned her time-traveling abilities while researching Trunk of Scrolls.  Many readers agree that it 🗼whooshed them into the Byzantine era “as if they were there.”

Darlene Böcek has since crossed-over into 🌆 sci-fi dystopia. 🕰 Time travel is a common element in all her sci-fi stories. Immortals Survive is the first of her Immortals trilogy. (And yes, there is time-travel in the series!).

A native of  San Diego, California, she received a 📜 Bachelors Degree in Social Science with an Ancient 🏺Middle Eastern emphasis from 🎓 Westmont College, and elementary and secondary teaching credentials 👩‍🏫 from Southern California College.  She is connected to 📖 Westminster Theological Seminary of 🏖 California  through her husband, Fikret.

She spends “most” of her time in front of the washing machine 👕👚 and her spare time writing 📝 (or vice-versa).

If she had free time, Darlene would enjoy cooking, 🌺🌸 gardening, painting, sewing and training her 🦴 wild animals.