New ARC Just dropped: Door Three of Five Doors
In Elsewhere, the third installment of the Marilyn Deallan Series, Mimi Deallan is trying to rebuild her life after escaping a violent car wreck and the obsessive ex‑boyfriend who nearly destroyed her. California offers her a fragile sense of normalcy: a temporary home with controlling landlady Barbara, a unique friendship with her new roommate Alena, and a spark of creative purpose in dance and improv. But when a handwritten letter from Jack appears on her car, Mimi’s carefully constructed stability begins to unravel. Her secrets — the hidden cash, the lies, the past she refuses to name — fracture her relationship with Alena. And just as her world collapses, Asael, the devil who once saved her, returns with the same offer he’s always given her: a door to another life. Caught between the life she’s built and the trauma she’s been running from, Mimi must decide whether she’s outgrown California… or whether she’s simply terrified to stay. Elsewhere blends psychological suspense with surreal, character‑driven world‑hopping to explore the cost of escape and the dangerous comfort of starting over.
Dear Reader, I started this story with a girl who couldn’t sing—and a devil who taught her how to play.
Marilyn Deallan: Origins, the first book in the Five Doors series, and Marilyn Deallan: Abyss are both available on B&N.com. Elsewhere is officially live for pre-order. If you love dark fantasy, poetic prose, and characters haunted by memory, this one’s for you.
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Just screenshot your proof of pre-order, review, or both and email me: amyayreswrites@gmail.com
Thank you for walking through the door with me.
–Amy
Follow the Five Doors Saga: the rest of the Marilyn DeAllan Series
🌑 Marilyn Deallan: Origins
A voice cursed. A fate rewritten.
Teenage Mimi Deallan makes a dangerous deal with Asael, a devil who teaches her to sing in exchange for more than she understands. Fame follows—but so do haunted doors, fractured timelines, and rivalries that cut deep. Origins launches the Five Doors Saga with a punk-infused descent into memory, identity, and the brutal magic of wanting more.
🕳️ Marilyn Deallan: Abyss
Fame is a trap. Escape is never clean.
Mimi flees to California, chasing music and love with Jack, Nina, and Blake. Her voice propels the band to Coachella, but behind the scenes, abuse, betrayal, and fractured friendships threaten to unravel everything. Abyss dives into toxic love, artistic survival, and the cost of being seen.
🌀 Marilyn Deallan: Elsewhere COMING SOON
Reinvention is seductive. Secrets always surface.
After surviving a car crash, Mimi reinvents herself as a broke college student with a hidden fortune. She bonds with Alena, a wealthy peer who offers friendship and support—until Mimi’s past begins to bleed through. As Asael resurfaces and old ghosts return, Mimi must choose between revenge and reinvention. Elsewhere explores anonymity, intimacy, and the danger of forgetting who you are.
🧿 Marilyn Deallan: Haven COMING SOON
Faith becomes a prison. Identity becomes a haven.
Asael whisks Mimi to Detroit, where she falls for Eric—a celibate Evangelical who demands conversion before marriage. Mimi descends into a cultish lifestyle, losing herself in rituals and repression. Jack reappears, hollowed by fame, and Mimi begins to question everything she thought she wanted. She must escape again, now to Dublin, Ireland where she hopes to find the source of her misery. Haven is a reckoning with belief, control, and the long fight to reclaim agency.
🌊 Marilyn Deallan: Eden COMING SOON
Legacy is magic. Home is the final door.
In Ireland, Mimi traded a ring for a mysterious watch engraved with her grandmother’s initials—and discovered it was more than sentimental. Asael forces her to return home to the same pool hall where they met in Philadelphia and start their pact once again. But Mimi’s reclaimed friendship with Vanessa inspires her to travel through decades and generations, as she begins to truly uncover the truth of her lineage, her power, and the places that shaped her. Eden is a story of reclamation, where the past and future collide in unexpected ways.🔮 Ready to open the first door?
Start with Origins and follow Mimi through five unforgettable transformations.
Explore the saga. Rewrite your myth.
Are you a fan of musical fantasy stories but looking for something a bit more fae? You might want to check out She Went Rogue:
In the crumbling alleyways and smoke-cloaked basements of 1970s Manchester, three young Fae: Eddie, Nick, and Daniella, live double lives. By day, they blend among humans, their glamour cloaking glimmers of wings, ancient bloodlines, and wild power.
By night, they carve out a sound all their own. Drums that shatter illusions. Guitars that thrum with spells. Vocals laced with defiance and charm. Their dream is revolution. Fae punk isn’t just rebellion. It’s a reckoning.
Among the grit and grind of underground gigs, they catch the attention of Joffrey Quivell, a sharp-tongued Fae teen with a cassette recorder and a hunger for truth. He’s no outsider peering in—he’s one of them. A chronicler of the scene who sees through glamour and hears the pulse of the movement beneath the feedback. His words don’t just document, they amplify.
As the band’s notoriety spreads, whispers reach the cobbled corridors of Fae enclaves and the smoke-filled pubs of London. Magic-infused venues, contracts bound with blood and glamour, and temptations that flicker like neon fireflies begin to beckon. But rising too fast has consequences for Fae who already live with one foot in secrecy and another in rebellion.
After shaking Manchester’s underground scene with their sound, the band finds itself drawn deeper into London’s magnetic chaos. Clubs pulse with glamour, record labels send scouts with enchanted contracts, and the crowds roar louder with every gig. But beneath the stage lights, cracks begin to form.
Daniella, fierce and unapologetically brilliant, starts dreaming bigger than London. She talks of New York’s grit, L.A.’s lunacy, and the hunger pulsing through America’s underground punk. There, she believes, the band can truly break free—from the Fae council’s warnings, from the city’s worn expectations, from the feeling that their magic is always one step from being silenced.
But the others hesitate. Eddie’s rooted in rhythm and in the pulse of their homeland. Nick fears losing his sound to a world that might not listen. And Joffrey, ever the archivist and anchor, senses that something deeper than distance could unravel their bond. The States offer promise, yes—but also the threat of becoming strangers to themselves, and each other.
As the band stands at this crossroads, the question lingers in the smoke and glamour: are they destined to conquer new worlds, or is the magic strongest when it stays wild and local?
She Went Rogueis a howl through the smoke—a punk-laced tale of magic, friendship, danger, and the electric ache of youth fighting not just for recognition, but for a world that won’t flatten their brilliance.