WRITER OF:
FANTASY, THRILLER, & ROMANCE
BIO
Isabelle Martinsen is an Arizona resident, currently burning up in the desert heat and enjoying every second of it. She and her husband are parents to two spazzy, adorable cats. When she's not writing, she's probably drawing or binge-watching reality TV shows.
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She writes fantasy, thriller, and romance and specializes in morally gray characters, emotional damage, sizzling tension, and shocking twists.
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CHARACTER ART
Blaise and Viola from A DESPICABLE VOW
Art by: @sashadowart on Twitter
Nate and Everly from SOMEBODY PINCH ME, my YA thriller
Art by: @tanisketch on Twitter
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BOOKS
A DESPICABLE VOW is a new adult fantasy, complete at 90k words.
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Viola Demour has the power to bend fate to her will when she writes in her royal blood. When she uses that power to condemn a group of potential suitors, she realizes that this permanent magic was more dangerous than she imagined. Now, with fifty days to find a spouse, she must find a way around her own vow, and hopefully fall in love in the process. If not, the kingdom will fall, and she'll go with it.
MORE THAN ENOUGH is a contemporary romance novel, complete at 72k words.
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Healing isn't linear---a reality Desiree comes face-to-face with when she opens herself up to the possibility of love after an emotionally abusive relationship. She enrolls in dance lessons in hopes of reigniting some old passions and love for life. With the help of the live pianist of her ballet class, Avery, she rekindles a love for herself, and finds herself falling for him in the process.
KARMA'S HITLIST is a deranged, edge-of-your-seat YA murder mystery complete at 78k words.
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When Nadia's diary goes missing and people she wrote about start getting murdered in ways reflecting how they mistreated her, she must race the clock to unmask the killer—especially since the last entry is about her crush.
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THE SHADOW ON SILVER MOUNTAIN is a New Adult Gothic Fantasy novel. It is a work in progress, currently complete at 70k words and is in the revision process.
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Featuring dual timelines and dual POV, TSOSM depicts the intertwined stories of a brother and sister, coping with religious trauma, learning to navigate the consequences of their actions (similar in deed, opposite in motivation), and realizing that perhaps the darkness was more suited for them, after all.
CONNECT
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