Zöe Delambre is an international writer who refuses to accept categories.
Although Zöe writes action-filled romances that have both thriller and cozy mystery aspects, she teasingly calls her style Closed Door Sizzle. In a sea of formula-driven writers pushed into highly defined genres, Zöe’s work defies genre.
“I write about the characters who speak to me. You know, the ones who wake me up at night telling me their story or the ones that bug me when I swim laps. I’m not saying they’re real, just that they really want to be. You can’t stick those guys in a box. They won’t let you.”
Although she is very secretive of the details, Zöe has published under multiple pen names, but the first book she published under her name was the well-received HOT AGUA intended to be the first in her Salt Tales series. Hot Agua is the story of native Texan Sarita Salt, a high-powered New York City lawyer who experiences the most intimate of betrayals. Privileged by birth but abandoned by death and disloyalty, Sarita’s journey of self-doubt and self-reliance runs an emotional gamut through the blinders of love and a hail of bullets. It’s a steamy rollercoaster of emotions and a fasten-your-seatbelt tale entangled with tenderness and female empowerment. It was originally released as an Amazon exclusive in Kindle e-book and paperback. But it’s set to be sold wide by the end of 2024 to coincide with the author-narrated audio release.
The second book in Zöe’s Salt Tales series was released as a novella entitled TRUE AZUL. Zöe pulled it from the market a few months after it was published. She plans to release the full-length TOO ROJO the last quarter of 2024 as continuation of the story and the second book in the Salt Tales quartet that hops around the world from New York City to Texas to Paris to Mexico..
Early 2025 will see the unveiling of what Zöe calls her “superReal” series, The Hidden Letters. The first book THE ONE FORETOLD may might be considered a supernatural romantic thriller, but Zöe insists shoving it into a box like that “misses the real story.” The main character is Malachite Smith, an American-born history professor at L’Université de Paris whose quiet one-year sabbatical in Scotland throws her into a whirlwind of shocking twists and turns. It thrusts you along with Malachite into a technicolor mystical emersion into Womankind’s evolutionary dance with Power and one woman’s demand of Destiny.
Zöe Delambre was born and formally educated in the United States. But she insists that passports are just paper and her real education has been in the moments between airports. Her love of travel and her deep personal dive into the cultures of Europe and the Americas shine through in her books.