By Darlene N.Böcek
Trunk of Scrolls: Paths of faith & Fire
historical adventure in Ancient byzantium
Trunk of Scrolls: Paths of Faith and Fire, the EXPANDED second edition is now available for purchase in paperback, audiobook, and ebook.
Available NOW from author Darlene N. Böcek!
Author
Darlene N. Böcek
Darlene N. Böcek is the author of six books. She writes cross-genre.
🌇 YA Sci-fi suspense line
Her Sci-fi Fantasy Dystopia line includes
- The Immortals Series (currently in final stages before publication)
Speculative Mystery
- Tim Reynolds, Detective: The Death of Noah Black,
- The Special (A Short Origin Novel)
- and the podcast: They All Marveled Podcast.
🏺 historical & Mystery
Her YA historical fiction
- Trunk of Scrolls: Paths of Faith and Fire (Illustrated and revised second edition of Trunk of Scrolls: A Family Adventure)
Mystery
Speculative line
Her Speculative line includes
Return to Me Trilogy:
(BEYOND THE VEIL Supernatural Drama)
- The Last Noel: Reuben’s Story A Christmas Novella)
- Vera’s Story
- Monica’s Story
Classic Monsters (short stories)
- Silver and Sawdust (Werewolf-2021)
- Return from the Black Lagoon (Creature from the Black Lagoon-2023)
- The House of Hidden Faces, or The Invisible Landlord (Invisible Man-2024)
- Fit To Kill (Dracula-2025)
About the Author
Darlene N. Böcek and her family live in Izmir, Turkey. They are all Marvel MCU, early Star Wars, and Twilight Zone fans but her favorite sci-fi character is Rocket Raccoon, because he looks like ChicaLola (see below for details!). 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 two giant dogs, two four cute Havanese puppies and one African Grey parrot. (Click below for pictures!) Most pets are named for movie characters.
Latest News & Posts: Scrollkeepers
🎇 Doorways and Portals 🚪
Hi Reader– WONDERFUL NEWS: The Return to Me Kickstarter has met the funding threshold. We FUNDED on Day One!! Now we are working on “stretch goals” which is a way to get more bonuses and freebies to all Backers. A Kickstarter is a way to sell preorders in order for a small business to fund a publication project. The Box Set is only ever available here on this Kickstarter. If you’ve delayed backing, now’s a good time to take a look–early backers always get more freebies and bonuses. 🎁 (I’ve…
📖 🏺 We are Clay and Dust 🌄
Dear Reader– A faith-building thought for the day: Death reminds us that we are creatures. Yet as fearsome as death is, it is nothing compared with meeting a holy God. When we encounter him, the totality of our creatureliness breaks upon us and shatters the myth that we have believed about ourselves, the myth that we are demigods, junior-grade deities who will try to live forever. RC Sproul My prayer for you is that you will be overwhelmed by the holiness of God. Lord, you have been our…
📖 ☕️ Experiencing the Holy 🌄
Hi Reader– In case you were thinking the Return to Me novels are simple paranormal stories–let me share with you two quotes that underlie the heart of the series. “There are only two ways of dying. We can die in faith or we can die in our sins.” RC Sproul The Return to Me series explores this aspect of life and death. 👈 “The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence…
