C.M. Martens
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My love of words began as soon as I learned to read. Over the years, I’ve gone from reading others’ books to writing my own. I like to think I’m telling the stories of lives lived in alternate universes…so grab a multiverse passport and join me in traveling these fantastical worlds.


Releasing June 27th!
A New Age Fantasy series that starts at magic school and moves on to a war for the soul of a species and a fight to save Siela from vanishing forever.

The End of Dying
The final installment in the Rishi’s Wish series, coming Winter 2023
Hope is not a plan. That’s what Phecda tried to explain. It’s what Dee has finally learned.
She’s lost so much.
Everything.
They say when the crucible is laid, true character is revealed. Will Dee’s trials show her as the hero or the villain of her story?
Don’t miss this best adventure yet! Read Born to Die, book 4 in the Rishi’s WIsh series today.
Rishi’s Wish
An Urban Fantasy Saga

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Rishi’s Wish Omnibus (books 1-3) is available in multiple e-formats. Catch up on Desiree’s epic adventure today!
TEN-ZERO-NINE – the RISHI’S WISH prequel – and Killing Game – book 1 – are available as free downloads. Click the book image below to start reading or choose your store of choice with the buttons.
Rishi’s Wish: an Urban Fantasy Series
Killing Game
Nightmares of fire and blood are all Desiree has to explain waking up changed. Supernaturally fast and strong, she has no memory of what happened or who’s responsible. Thinking herself safe, she focuses on making a simple life for herself…
…but the thing that did this isn’t willing to let her go.
An attack on her life by a creature of fiction is only the first. Confused and angry, Dee knows the past hidden in her psyche has caught up to her. Questions she’s avoided rule her thoughts. With no way to find answers, how will she survive?
The arrival of a mysterious stranger brings the answers she craves, but is he too good to be true? Is it safer to get rid of him? If he can show her how to stay alive, it’s worth the risk.
Hamal breaks his own rules by coming to Dee’s aid. His mission was to watch, not interfere. But there’s something about her worth putting his reputation on the line. He knows she’ll need all the help he can give. While she doesn’t know about the creatures he serves, even he has no idea what’s coming.
Thrown into a world with immortal foes—some friends, some enemies—Dee must decide the price she’ll pay for answers or if it’s better to run. Little does she know; one holds the answers to her past—a Rishi whose wish started it all.
If you love a clueless protagonist similar to Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan in a world rich with underground beings similar to Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, this is an adventure you want to begin. Buy now and start this adventure today!
Claiming Krinkae
a Dark-Fantasy Romance Saga
Coming 2023


Callie is the last living descendent of the blood truce – her life all that holds back threats from beyond their border.
When an unknowable curse sends Callie into an unwakeable sleep, the peace set by the last of the Fae is threatened. Desperate to save his love, there is nothing Cosan won’t withstand to save her from the threatening Dark.
Cosan and Callie will be tested beyond their limits. They’ll put their very lives on the line for each other. Will it be enough to save the very fate of their world?
Romance Tropes: cursed, royalty, alpha hero, trauma, outside danger, royal/guard
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