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Trunk of Scrolls
Their World is Over. Everything is Destroyed.
All that's left is a Trunk of Scripture Scrolls.
A broken life...Shoving aside the rubble covering his once-perfect life, Marcellus sees his home in ruins, his family scattered, and his faith broken by the unpredictable God who destroyed everything. Now he must escort his family on a perilous journey to Constantinople to find his lost uncle and recover the family's missing fortune.
A cursed ring... His hidden love for bold and daring Byziana is complicated by one overwhelming fact-she is betrothed to sword-wielding Belisarius, Marcellus's greatest foe. No one but Marcellus knows the danger, but his honor forbids him from revealing it.
A neglected trunk... Their hope lies in a trunk of Scripture scrolls. But they have no idea.
Kyrie Eleison. God have mercy.
Dr. Michael S. Horton - "Church history is exciting, but not always told in an exciting way. As historical fiction, Trunk of Scrolls transports the reader to another time and place while making it all seem less remote. Written in vivid--sometimes almost poetic--prose, this is a page-turner. I'm sure that it will reach the wide audience that it deserves."
"The entire time I was reading Darlene Bocek's book Trunk of Scrolls I could picture it being such a wonderful family adventure film." Goodreads
"Our six year old son loved [this and] begged us to keep reading way into the night." Amazon
"This exciting and engaging story takes us back to the sixth century in order to consider the most critical question of every age: Who is Jesus Christ? A great read!" Dr. Joel R. Beeke
'Trunk of Scrolls fell open and I fell in, and throughout the adventure, mystery, drama, action and romance, I found myself lost in the author's world and deeply attached to and caring about her characters. They became my friends; I hated her villains and loved her heroes and heroines...MY heroes and heroines. Their stories thrilled my soul and warmed my heart for many weeks after I finished the book." Goodreads
Trunk of Scrolls is a "on the edge of your seat" survival story.
If you like fast-paced adventures, spontaneous young heroes, suspense-filled plots, and a dash of romance, then you'll love Trunk of Scrolls! Good for the whole family! Great for a curl-up-on-the-bed read.
BUY it today! Take and Read!
All that's left is a Trunk of Scripture Scrolls.
A broken life...Shoving aside the rubble covering his once-perfect life, Marcellus sees his home in ruins, his family scattered, and his faith broken by the unpredictable God who destroyed everything. Now he must escort his family on a perilous journey to Constantinople to find his lost uncle and recover the family's missing fortune.
A cursed ring... His hidden love for bold and daring Byziana is complicated by one overwhelming fact-she is betrothed to sword-wielding Belisarius, Marcellus's greatest foe. No one but Marcellus knows the danger, but his honor forbids him from revealing it.
A neglected trunk... Their hope lies in a trunk of Scripture scrolls. But they have no idea.
Kyrie Eleison. God have mercy.
Dr. Michael S. Horton - "Church history is exciting, but not always told in an exciting way. As historical fiction, Trunk of Scrolls transports the reader to another time and place while making it all seem less remote. Written in vivid--sometimes almost poetic--prose, this is a page-turner. I'm sure that it will reach the wide audience that it deserves."
"The entire time I was reading Darlene Bocek's book Trunk of Scrolls I could picture it being such a wonderful family adventure film." Goodreads
"Our six year old son loved [this and] begged us to keep reading way into the night." Amazon
"This exciting and engaging story takes us back to the sixth century in order to consider the most critical question of every age: Who is Jesus Christ? A great read!" Dr. Joel R. Beeke
'Trunk of Scrolls fell open and I fell in, and throughout the adventure, mystery, drama, action and romance, I found myself lost in the author's world and deeply attached to and caring about her characters. They became my friends; I hated her villains and loved her heroes and heroines...MY heroes and heroines. Their stories thrilled my soul and warmed my heart for many weeks after I finished the book." Goodreads
Trunk of Scrolls is a "on the edge of your seat" survival story.
If you like fast-paced adventures, spontaneous young heroes, suspense-filled plots, and a dash of romance, then you'll love Trunk of Scrolls! Good for the whole family! Great for a curl-up-on-the-bed read.
BUY it today! Take and Read!
- GenresHistorical Fiction
331 pages, Paperback
First published October 21, 2016
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About the author
Darlene N. Bocek
7 books57 followersBestselling author Darlene N. Böcek is a Marvel fan. She loves writing mind-bending historical and sci-fi stories with portals in them, and prefers reading YA.
Darlene lives on a farm on the Aegean coast of Izmir, Turkey, and has six dogs. Understandably, dogs play an important role in her stories (as do ancient secrets, which surround her in the land of old Byzantium).
You can find out more, and join her interactive book club on her website: http://darlenenbocek.com
Darlene lives on a farm on the Aegean coast of Izmir, Turkey, and has six dogs. Understandably, dogs play an important role in her stories (as do ancient secrets, which surround her in the land of old Byzantium).
You can find out more, and join her interactive book club on her website: http://darlenenbocek.com
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September 19, 2016
Beginning with the excitement of its opening scene of a young man being kidnapped on horseback, through every twist and turn, heartthrob and heartbreak, all the way to its final and satisfying resolution, this book had me gripped. Trunk of Scrolls fell open and I fell in, and throughout the adventure, mystery, drama, action and romance, I found myself lost in the author’s world and deeply attached to and caring about her characters. They became my friends; I hated her villains and loved her heroes and heroines…MY heroes and heroines. Their stories thrilled my soul and warmed my heart for many weeks after I finished the book. And though I learned as much political and church history as I would have in any good quality mini-course, I never felt as though I were being taught–rather, the time period, the surroundings, and its people simply became my own. If only learning history in school could be this real and exciting!
The author crafted a brilliant, layered story and took us through it at the perfect cadence, artfully using both flashbacks and lively pacing to unfold her captivating tale. The questions the characters struggled with were profound, and Ms. Bocek skillfully wove their queries throughout the book in a way that was thought-provoking yet quite natural and easy to understand. I grappled alongside her characters as they worked through the Monophysite Controversy, experiencing the conflict in a way that was not only academic but also personal, and I came away from it with a deepened appreciation for why it was such a terribly important piece of church history.
My children ages 12-19 also read the book, and found it equally exciting. Two of even them re-read the story just to enjoy it all over again. We are a family of bibliophiles, and none of us had expected such an excellent read from such a new author, but we are all thankful Ms. Bocek has found her gifting. We hope she writes a sequel, but whatever she does write, we will be first in line to get it.
The author crafted a brilliant, layered story and took us through it at the perfect cadence, artfully using both flashbacks and lively pacing to unfold her captivating tale. The questions the characters struggled with were profound, and Ms. Bocek skillfully wove their queries throughout the book in a way that was thought-provoking yet quite natural and easy to understand. I grappled alongside her characters as they worked through the Monophysite Controversy, experiencing the conflict in a way that was not only academic but also personal, and I came away from it with a deepened appreciation for why it was such a terribly important piece of church history.
My children ages 12-19 also read the book, and found it equally exciting. Two of even them re-read the story just to enjoy it all over again. We are a family of bibliophiles, and none of us had expected such an excellent read from such a new author, but we are all thankful Ms. Bocek has found her gifting. We hope she writes a sequel, but whatever she does write, we will be first in line to get it.
January 3, 2018
I had the privilege of proofreading Trunk of Scrolls for Darlene last summer, and I have to say that it was hard to stay on task! So many times I had to go back and reread several pages, reminding myself that I had a job to do. I was immersed in the story from the start, and it held my attention throughout the book...quite an adventure story! My copy of Trunk of Scrolls arrived in the mail today and I can't wait to sit down and read it for enjoyment this time!
May 17, 2018
Trunk of Scrolls by Darlene Bocek
I loved this book! Unlike anything else I've read so far. The story line is well formed and the
characters, both young people and older ones are believable. You find yourself rooting for them and following every step of their journey through out the book. The historical setting is also very
informational and eye-opening. It is set a few hundred years AD and begins with an awfully destructive earthquake, which changes the course of events for all concerned. I was sad when the book ended and hope that Darlene will write another, or make it into a series. I highly recommend it for people of all ages, including teenagers. Enjoy!!!! Glory~
I loved this book! Unlike anything else I've read so far. The story line is well formed and the
characters, both young people and older ones are believable. You find yourself rooting for them and following every step of their journey through out the book. The historical setting is also very
informational and eye-opening. It is set a few hundred years AD and begins with an awfully destructive earthquake, which changes the course of events for all concerned. I was sad when the book ended and hope that Darlene will write another, or make it into a series. I highly recommend it for people of all ages, including teenagers. Enjoy!!!! Glory~
April 4, 2025
This is a wild ride but great fun!
It is certainly not only fun but touches the deepest emotions, from that horrid feeling that even God has deserted you, to seeing all your dreams come true when you could never have done it by your own best efforts.
It's a long book - some 500 pages. But Bocek brilliantly breaks it down into small smidgens of two or three pages, so you get through it effortlessly. And each smidgen has a strong hook that pulls you inexorably into the next one. It's hard to put down and leaves you determined to get back as soon as possible!
Although I am a history buff, I had known little about the history of the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century. What you read about in the reign of Emperor Justinian was his attempt to re-establish the Roman Empire by taking Italy and North Africa back from the Germanic and Central Asian barbarians, while still carrying on Rome's 600-year-long war against the Persian Empire in Mesopotamia, Syria and Armenia. You read about Justinian's first attempt to codify Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis, the origin of most European law today.
But Bocek's book wastes little time on all that, beyond some passing references. What you see is that the Anatolia of the "new Rome" was full of robbers, cheats and roaming bands of barbarians, so even a short journey put you on the brink of death or enslavement for life. You see that, in Justinian's first five years, there were two earthquakes in Antioch that levelled and burnt the city, literally "melting" the Patriarch, plus the Nika riots in Constantinople, the descriptions of which, with sooty, traumatised, orphaned children wandering the streets covered with rubble, looking desperately for water to survive another day, calls 2024 Gaza to mind. And you learn that Justinian's great General, Belisarius, who vanquished huge armies of bloodthirsty barbarians for "the new Rome" with small armies and brilliant tactics, tried to kill Justinian, caused the inhuman destruction of the Nika riots, tried to enslave an 18-year-old girl on false promises of marriage, extorting her father to the point of emaciation, and, in the end, pinned it all on his best friend and got him executed, when he saw his plan couldn't work and the Emperor was winning. It is a people's history of Justinian's early reign, from the bottom up.In the process, this book explores the farthest extremes to which men can go - of evil, deceit, destruction, faith, charity and self-sacrifice.
Trunk of Scrolls is marketed as a Christian book, largely because of the author's role as a pastor's wife and a kind of lay preacher on the internet. But you won't have to sit through any "See the light and repent your wicked ways or burn in the eternal fire!" in this book. It is a higher, more philosophical level of Christianity taken up in this book, addressing questions common to all religions like "Who is God?" "What does He expect of us?" "Why does He let bad things happen to us and seem to undo all the good we try to do?" "Why do bad people acquire such wealth and power?" Anyone, Christian or not, who cares about these central questions of human existence, can learn something from this book, even though the answers are based soundly in Scripture.
To some extent, one could not write a history of the Byzantine Empire without reference to Christianity. When Emperor Constantine not only legalised Christianity, in the early 300s AD, after 25 years of Diocletian's merciless persecutions, but made it the State religion, Christians believed that God's Kingdom had come. But, 200 years later, Christians were seeing the negative aspect of having their religion taken over by the State. Every issue of faith and dogma became a political question. From 451AD, the issue was whether Jesus was only God, only a man or "both true God and truly man". Trunk of Scrolls shows how this esoteric issue provoked passionate debate, even divided families, something like "Brexit" in Britain in 2016-2019.
Then, politics were - dare I say it? - Byzantine. Trunk of Scrolls explains that there were four Parties under Justinian: Blue, Red, Green and Black, based not on ideology but on supporting different charioteer teams in the chariot races in the Hippodrome. Supporters dressed in their colours, sang their songs and tried to kill supporters of opposing teams, in the chariot race if possible or even in the stands or outside the Hippodrome. Justinian was a Blue and lavished his Party with gold and State offices: they were the only politicians he trusted. Before he sent his Imperial Guard, under Belisarus and others, to kill all the other Parties in the Hippodrome and stop the Nika riots, Justinian sent money to the Blues there and told them to get out of the Hippodrome. The Nika ("victory") riots began when Greens demanded "mercy" for their Party members arrested by Justinian's Imperial Guard and tried to kill all the supporters of the other Parties. The best science fiction writers could not have designed such a world!
So there is a lot to learn, a strange world to encounter (the more rewarding because it is ours!), an exploration of the deepest emotions and the highest ideals, in Trunk of Scrolls. I commend it to anyone over the age of 18, not because there is anything objectionable in it but because younger readers might not understand many aspects and might be adverse]y affected by the death, violence and misery depicted in many parts.
It is certainly not only fun but touches the deepest emotions, from that horrid feeling that even God has deserted you, to seeing all your dreams come true when you could never have done it by your own best efforts.
It's a long book - some 500 pages. But Bocek brilliantly breaks it down into small smidgens of two or three pages, so you get through it effortlessly. And each smidgen has a strong hook that pulls you inexorably into the next one. It's hard to put down and leaves you determined to get back as soon as possible!
Although I am a history buff, I had known little about the history of the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century. What you read about in the reign of Emperor Justinian was his attempt to re-establish the Roman Empire by taking Italy and North Africa back from the Germanic and Central Asian barbarians, while still carrying on Rome's 600-year-long war against the Persian Empire in Mesopotamia, Syria and Armenia. You read about Justinian's first attempt to codify Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis, the origin of most European law today.
But Bocek's book wastes little time on all that, beyond some passing references. What you see is that the Anatolia of the "new Rome" was full of robbers, cheats and roaming bands of barbarians, so even a short journey put you on the brink of death or enslavement for life. You see that, in Justinian's first five years, there were two earthquakes in Antioch that levelled and burnt the city, literally "melting" the Patriarch, plus the Nika riots in Constantinople, the descriptions of which, with sooty, traumatised, orphaned children wandering the streets covered with rubble, looking desperately for water to survive another day, calls 2024 Gaza to mind. And you learn that Justinian's great General, Belisarius, who vanquished huge armies of bloodthirsty barbarians for "the new Rome" with small armies and brilliant tactics, tried to kill Justinian, caused the inhuman destruction of the Nika riots, tried to enslave an 18-year-old girl on false promises of marriage, extorting her father to the point of emaciation, and, in the end, pinned it all on his best friend and got him executed, when he saw his plan couldn't work and the Emperor was winning. It is a people's history of Justinian's early reign, from the bottom up.In the process, this book explores the farthest extremes to which men can go - of evil, deceit, destruction, faith, charity and self-sacrifice.
Trunk of Scrolls is marketed as a Christian book, largely because of the author's role as a pastor's wife and a kind of lay preacher on the internet. But you won't have to sit through any "See the light and repent your wicked ways or burn in the eternal fire!" in this book. It is a higher, more philosophical level of Christianity taken up in this book, addressing questions common to all religions like "Who is God?" "What does He expect of us?" "Why does He let bad things happen to us and seem to undo all the good we try to do?" "Why do bad people acquire such wealth and power?" Anyone, Christian or not, who cares about these central questions of human existence, can learn something from this book, even though the answers are based soundly in Scripture.
To some extent, one could not write a history of the Byzantine Empire without reference to Christianity. When Emperor Constantine not only legalised Christianity, in the early 300s AD, after 25 years of Diocletian's merciless persecutions, but made it the State religion, Christians believed that God's Kingdom had come. But, 200 years later, Christians were seeing the negative aspect of having their religion taken over by the State. Every issue of faith and dogma became a political question. From 451AD, the issue was whether Jesus was only God, only a man or "both true God and truly man". Trunk of Scrolls shows how this esoteric issue provoked passionate debate, even divided families, something like "Brexit" in Britain in 2016-2019.
Then, politics were - dare I say it? - Byzantine. Trunk of Scrolls explains that there were four Parties under Justinian: Blue, Red, Green and Black, based not on ideology but on supporting different charioteer teams in the chariot races in the Hippodrome. Supporters dressed in their colours, sang their songs and tried to kill supporters of opposing teams, in the chariot race if possible or even in the stands or outside the Hippodrome. Justinian was a Blue and lavished his Party with gold and State offices: they were the only politicians he trusted. Before he sent his Imperial Guard, under Belisarus and others, to kill all the other Parties in the Hippodrome and stop the Nika riots, Justinian sent money to the Blues there and told them to get out of the Hippodrome. The Nika ("victory") riots began when Greens demanded "mercy" for their Party members arrested by Justinian's Imperial Guard and tried to kill all the supporters of the other Parties. The best science fiction writers could not have designed such a world!
So there is a lot to learn, a strange world to encounter (the more rewarding because it is ours!), an exploration of the deepest emotions and the highest ideals, in Trunk of Scrolls. I commend it to anyone over the age of 18, not because there is anything objectionable in it but because younger readers might not understand many aspects and might be adverse]y affected by the death, violence and misery depicted in many parts.
August 22, 2024
“The God of the earthquake, the God of the Scrolls, the God of Hidden Water, the Fire of God, the Weeping Shepherd, the God over all Kings—He willed to be grasped, and by His touchable blood enabled us to grasp onto humanity.”
Striding confidently through his uncle’s villa in Antioch, Marcellus noted how the mansion “poured forth Roman strength and aristocratic luxury, all wrapped in a Christian veneer.” From then on, each character battled to determine his or her loyalties, the consequences of pursuing those loyalties, and the role of Christian faith in those decisions.
This story took me places I’d never visited. Antioch in 525—a powerful, wealthy Roman playground about to be destroyed from within by treachery and from without by the hand of God in a vastly destructive earthquake.
525 A.D. had laws of its own in a strict patriarchal culture. You lived, married and died by your father’s will, even as in medieval times. Personal rights were nonexistent. Classes were rigidly defined, but financial failure could sweep one right out of his class into the gutter.
I own five Bibles; in 525 people outside of the priesthood were outlawed from owning a single biblical scroll. Any priest or monastery who had a copy of the complete canon was extraordinary. Yet everyone was engaged in theological conflict.
This is masterfully written historical fiction bringing to life Antioch and Constantinople as the Roman Empire became Christian but wrestled with the nature of its faith—could God become an actual human—in the flesh?
I was captivated by the relationships, the rigid social rules, and the driving passions that assailed the characters as they determined their positions in the ongoing deadly conflict of truth, power, and culture.
Striding confidently through his uncle’s villa in Antioch, Marcellus noted how the mansion “poured forth Roman strength and aristocratic luxury, all wrapped in a Christian veneer.” From then on, each character battled to determine his or her loyalties, the consequences of pursuing those loyalties, and the role of Christian faith in those decisions.
This story took me places I’d never visited. Antioch in 525—a powerful, wealthy Roman playground about to be destroyed from within by treachery and from without by the hand of God in a vastly destructive earthquake.
525 A.D. had laws of its own in a strict patriarchal culture. You lived, married and died by your father’s will, even as in medieval times. Personal rights were nonexistent. Classes were rigidly defined, but financial failure could sweep one right out of his class into the gutter.
I own five Bibles; in 525 people outside of the priesthood were outlawed from owning a single biblical scroll. Any priest or monastery who had a copy of the complete canon was extraordinary. Yet everyone was engaged in theological conflict.
This is masterfully written historical fiction bringing to life Antioch and Constantinople as the Roman Empire became Christian but wrestled with the nature of its faith—could God become an actual human—in the flesh?
I was captivated by the relationships, the rigid social rules, and the driving passions that assailed the characters as they determined their positions in the ongoing deadly conflict of truth, power, and culture.
March 31, 2025
As a fan of historical fiction, I've only dabbled in this time period and was fascinated by the detail provided in this well-written story. What a challenge to dive deep into history to learn about society, travel and daily life in ancient Anatolia. This was also a very personal story that focused on the losses and challenges of a specific family as they dealt with natural disasters and the hardships of daily life during this period.
The title of the book is Trunk of Scrolls and the mystery around this trunk is an ever present part of the story, impacting the family both practically and spiritually. We have so much written about God's Word in the modern age it is easy to forget that much of church history existed with only minimal access to both the Scriptures and any type of commentary. With the setting close to the early church councils, we dive into one of the controversies this was centered on.
I found Trunk of Scrolls to be both an enjoyable read and a learning opportunity. If you love history and historical fiction, you won't want to miss this one.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
The title of the book is Trunk of Scrolls and the mystery around this trunk is an ever present part of the story, impacting the family both practically and spiritually. We have so much written about God's Word in the modern age it is easy to forget that much of church history existed with only minimal access to both the Scriptures and any type of commentary. With the setting close to the early church councils, we dive into one of the controversies this was centered on.
I found Trunk of Scrolls to be both an enjoyable read and a learning opportunity. If you love history and historical fiction, you won't want to miss this one.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
June 14, 2022
In A.D. 526, Antioch is awakened by an earthquake. The once glory of Rome lies in ruins. A sixteen year old Byzantine nobleman by the name of Marcellus takes up his sword and wits to protect his young neighbors against wild animals, wild men, and a God they do not understand. They travel to Constantinople, a seven hundred mile journey, to find their missing father. With them, they take a cursed betrothal ring, a lucky tooth of an infant saint and a neglected trunk full of Scripture scrolls.
As in historical fiction, Trunk of Scrolls takes the reader to another time and place in the sixth century beginning with a young man being kidnapped on horseback. The adventure, mystery, drama, action and romance with the characters, along with villains, heroes and heroines make this story come to life.
I recommend this book to anyone who finds both historical non-fiction and fiction a good read.
As in historical fiction, Trunk of Scrolls takes the reader to another time and place in the sixth century beginning with a young man being kidnapped on horseback. The adventure, mystery, drama, action and romance with the characters, along with villains, heroes and heroines make this story come to life.
I recommend this book to anyone who finds both historical non-fiction and fiction a good read.
March 7, 2018
To me there is nothing better than a book about history which is also filled with mystery, adventure romance and the commitment of family. Darlene did a masterful job of weaving not only the history of the Byzantine Empire but more importantly how much faith matters. I finished the book in two days and could not put it down . Trunk of Scrolls has been passed on to friends to read. The book has put me on a quest to learn more about the Byzantine Empire , Pope Leo’s Tome and the Council of Chalcedon.
July 17, 2017
I think the biblical history and discussion was the best part of this book. It did make me want to go look up more about the particular time in history and some of the controversies of the time. The story part was less interesting to me. It seemed somewhat predictable and parts of the plot seemed somewhat dark for a "family" adventure. My wife read it also, and did not find it as unsettling, but that might be due to our backgrounds.
June 12, 2024
Excellent historical fiction that is accessible for middle grade on up. Difficult topics are not glossed over, yet they are not the central focus either. Older readers are able to see between the lines and put the pieces together that a younger reader may not quite grasp. Death, abuse, treachery, honor, hope, rescue, joy - the entire gambit is here and it is a compelling story well told.
I received an ARC; this is my honest review.
I received an ARC; this is my honest review.
September 1, 2021
Exciting Story and Theologically Profound
This is a page turning adventure story that addresses life's meaningful questions about good and evil. Her discussion of the nature of the coexistence of the divinity and humanity of Jesus is possibly the best that I have ever read. I highly recommend this book.
This is a page turning adventure story that addresses life's meaningful questions about good and evil. Her discussion of the nature of the coexistence of the divinity and humanity of Jesus is possibly the best that I have ever read. I highly recommend this book.
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April 22, 2023Trunk Of Scrolls: A Family Adventure lives up to its name. The thought of scrolls takes us back in history to another time. I enjoyed visiting the past in such a family setting. Its urges the imagination to put ourselves in another time and place. But it's a comfortable to place to be with family even though it's a adventure too. An unusual and exciting journey.
October 9, 2022
I enjoyed this book. A fascinating look at the church during the Byzantine era with a compelling story to go along with it.
November 14, 2016
The entire time I was reading Darlene Bocek's book Trunk of Scrolls I could picture it being such a wonderful family adventure film! I hope that comes to pass! This exciting book of historical fiction takes place in 6th century Turkey, involving a family in upheaval following an earthquake that destroys their beloved Antioch. The power, protection and purposes of God prevail throughout the tale and show an ending provided by a gracious God who did have mercy. Kyrie eleison!
March 10, 2025
Great read!
Trunk of Scrolls is an exciting adventure that carries the MC’s through their trials and tribulations with a backdrop of historical fiction. It’s packed with true facts regarding the time frame plus a clean touch of romance along with meaningful biblical references. This well-written and researched novel flows over a landscape that brought the world into a clear picture for me. Even though I’ve read about the area many times this story shows a much clearer view than I’ve previously envisioned. I highly recommend it as it is great for all ages with an excellent message.
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Trunk of Scrolls is an exciting adventure that carries the MC’s through their trials and tribulations with a backdrop of historical fiction. It’s packed with true facts regarding the time frame plus a clean touch of romance along with meaningful biblical references. This well-written and researched novel flows over a landscape that brought the world into a clear picture for me. Even though I’ve read about the area many times this story shows a much clearer view than I’ve previously envisioned. I highly recommend it as it is great for all ages with an excellent message.
Purchased via Amazon
November 9, 2016
This book was well written and kept me coming back for more. The plot was exciting and the author was very good at interweaving a love story, an adventure, theological truth and history. I highly recommend it and I can’t wait for another book!
December 12, 2016
Great story! Couldn't put the book down. I enjoyed learning more about this time in history, and I gained a new appreciation for the preciousnness of the Word of God. This is a good book for teens and for family reading.
January 5, 2017
From my 14 year old son who couldn't put it down..."It was an awesome book and I enjoyed every minute!"
April 4, 2017
It was amazing book that I recently read as a fiction. As a history student, I really loved to see that ancient world in this book with good story that includes bible, scriptures. I can't wait to see that in Turkish and see people to read it.
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