Dear Reader, I started this story with a girl who couldn’t sing—and a devil who taught her how to play. Now the world belongs to her.
Marilyn Deallan: Origins, the first book in the Five Doors series, is officially live for pre-order. If you love dark fantasy, poetic prose, and characters haunted by memory, this one’s for you.
🦋 Grab your copy now → [Link] 🎶 Pre-order bonus now available: “The Conversation That Didn’t Happen,” from Book 1. (And in return for proof of review you get the playlist, digital character pack, and “Don’t Call Me Kitten” from Book 4.)
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
In the depths of her misfortune, Marilyn “Mimi” DeAllan, an Irish American girl burdened with a relentless streak of bad luck, discovers an unusual friendship with a young man named Asael, who claims to be the devil himself.
He understands Marilyn’s plight and offers to bargain with her. Not for her soul, but for something else, her assistance in capturing others’ souls. For a time, her bad luck seems to be abated. However, what initially seems like a glimmer of hope soon reveals itself to be a sinister alliance with an insidious companion.
As Marilyn delves deeper into this inevitable pairing, she realizes that her newfound friend and lover is not the benevolent guide she had hoped for.
Asael proves to be a narcissistic and controlling presence, using his influence to sway her every decision. He offers her and delivers a tantalizing array of promises: wealth beyond imagination, fame as a gifted singer and songwriter, and even the prospect of true love.
Yet, beneath these enticing gifts lies a web of deceit and manipulation and the complete loss of her autonomy. Marilyn learns that Asael can bend time with his magical watch and it dictates her entire existence.
With every passing day, Marilyn’s spirit withers under the devil’s oppressive grip. Desperate to escape his clutches and regain control of her own destiny, she musters the courage to break free from his malevolent influence.
The path to freedom, however, leads her into a world far more unforgiving and brutal than she could have ever imagined. Asael insists he has the cure for such pain: the magic time traveling doors.
Each door acts as a portal, allowing her to travel through time and rewrite her own story. But each time her story is rewritten her past finds a way to haunt her and the effects of it make it harder for her to move forward despite Asael’s claims that this does not happen.
And still, driven by an indomitable spirit and armed with a unique resilience, Marilyn eventually travels to Ireland to get to the bottom of her bad luck. There, in an antique shop in Dublin she finds a mystical wristwatch that possesses the same power as Asael’s to manipulate time.
This enchanted timepiece becomes her key to unlocking the magical doors scattered across different eras of time that take her directly to one of her equally unlucky ancestors. With the help of one friend Vanessa that has found a way to follow her through time, they discover it might be possible to defeat Asael.
As Marilyn ventures through these enchanted doors, she encounters heartbreak, betrayal, and unimaginable cruelty in various epochs. Yet, she refuses to succumb to the overwhelming darkness that surrounds her. Through her unwavering resilience and the lessons she learns along the way, she discovers her own strength and the power within to break free from her cursed existence.
Each door she walks through brings her closer to the ultimate challenge—the fifth and final door. Which is not what you might expect.
It is there that Marilyn must face one of her deepest fears, confront her darkest demons, and figure out a way to finally break the chains of her ill fortune.
Time itself becomes both her enemy and her ally as she battles against the relentless forces of fate.
In this gripping tale of determination, Marilyn DeAllan’s relentless pursuit of freedom takes readers on a rollercoaster ride through time and emotion.
Only time will tell if Marilyn’s magical watch and her unwavering courage will be enough to rewrite her destiny and find the redemption she so desperately seeks.
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.