Fantasy Romance Books

Hi! I’m Deborah J. Martins, a Fantasy Romance Author

Hi! I'm Deborah J. Martins, A FantasyRomanceRomantasy Author

I write about magical kingdoms and morally grey love interests with naughty, wandering fingers. Read more about the books below.

Where Madness Hunts

Two academic rivals meet Dionysus, defeat a vampire, and take a trip into the Seven Circles of Faerie as they confront their shared past.

Jo is desperate to clear her best friend’s name after a series of brutal murders leave her friend behind iron bars and a god, a vampire, and the Wilde King of Faerie as the suspects.

The only problem? To do it, she’ll have to team up with her former tormentor, Evander, the infuriatingly brilliant rich boy who recently stole her dream PhD position.

When Evander’s mother turns up dead, he’ll do anything to hunt down her killer, including partnering with the girl he once made it his mission to ruin. Their investigation leads them into a dangerous world ruled by the God of Madness, a tangled web of political betrayals, and the seven deadly circles of Faerie where their darkest sins are exposed and their rawest desires are impossible to ignore.

Persephone’s Revenge

Hades and Persephone team up to kill Zeus.

Persephone wants revenge. For a thousand years, she has been trapped on her mother’s enchanted island, hidden away like a shameful secret and forced to pretend she survived Zeus’s violence intact. But when she discovers that her son is truly dead, she becomes a woman on a war-path, determined to kill the King of Olympus. There’s just one problem: she can’t kill Zeus alone.

Fortunate then, that she crosses paths with Hades, the monster every god fears, ruler of the Underworld, and the one being in existence who might hate Zeus more than she does. Hades knows he can’t defeat Zeus in the open, but when Persephone asks him to help her destroy the brother who ruined both their lives, he finds himself saying yes to a war he may not survive. Worse, he finds himself saying yes to her.

Rumpelstiltskin

Willow, a spy in the Rift—a haven for the universe’s darkest beings—has always lived by one rule: observe, don’t interfere. But when a succubus threatens her beloved grandmother, protector of the Women’s Quarter, Willow breaks that rule. She eliminates the threat, but her act of defiance triggers a chain of unforeseen events.

Despite her efforts, her grandmother is kidnapped, leaving the Women’s Quarter vulnerable. As Willow desperately searches for answers, all signs point to the one person she swore she’d never see again: Rumpelstiltskin, her ruthless ex-boyfriend.

Rumpelstiltskin, a powerful ruler in his own right, offers a lifeline. He claims innocence but agrees to help Willow rescue her grandmother and save the Women’s Quarter. To uncover the truth, Willow decides to strike a dangerous bargain with the devil himself. Only one problem: Rumpelstiltskin knows all her secrets, and the price he demands might be too much to bear.

The Star and the Vulture

In a world with no stars and no escape, Raina fights a constant battle against the warlocks who killed her dad, trapped her mum, and condemned her village to a life of monsters and rising sand.

But as Raina unravels the warlocks’ secrets during her quest for vengeance, she finds herself caught between loyalty to her people and an unexpected connection with those she’s supposed to hate.

Torn between growing feelings for three very different men and the weight of three worlds’ fates on her shoulders, Raina must confront a brutal choice: the people who raised her, or the warlocks she’s falling for.

The Poisoner’s Last Breath

History’s most notorious poisoner strikes a deal with Death to save her life—she should have known he’d end up claiming her soul.

Giulia Tofana is a dead woman walking. Caught poisoning a string of abusive husbands, she is sentenced to die at the hands of the Inquisition. But just as the hot iron comes for her skin, Death steps out of the shadows with a bargain: hunt down three escaped souls who have slipped his grasp, and he’ll spare her from the pyre. Desperate to survive, Giulia agrees.

But as she begins the hunt, memories surface—fractured visions of lives she hasn’t lived, of a love spanning centuries, of a betrayal so devastating she has spent lifetimes running from it. And most terrifying of all is the truth that rises with each kill: She is not Death’s hunter. She is his prey.

The Faerie King

Fated to die young, Elysia has stolen a forbidden love with Dae, the infamously sadistic ruler of Faerie—and her father’s sworn enemy. Many would fear him, but with death already looming, what did she have to lose?

But falling for a trickster like Dae proves to be a dangerous mistake. Faerie Kings aren’t known for easily releasing their toys. Elysia learns this lesson the hard way when, on her twentieth birthday, the prophesied illness meant to claim her life strikes her mother instead in a cruel twist orchestrated by Dae that culminates in Elysia’s abduction to Faerie.

With only the length of spring to save her mother, Elysia must unravel the secrets of Fearie and enter into a bloody battle with her first love, the ruthless, cunning creature who will do anything to keep her alive and by his side—only one problem, Dae is much more accustomed to bloodshed than she is. And with the doors to Hell just down the corridor, every choice Elysia makes could reshape her fate… or seal her doom.

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