The World of Mabel Shirley

“Mabel Shirley was born beneath a sky split by the crackle of a love that defied time itself—a radiance that shone beyond the world of magic, touching realms unseen. Her birth was not merely an event, but a confluence of forces: fate bending to the weight of an unbroken bond, a love so fierce it marked her very soul. From that moment on, the world of the mundane could never truly hold her—nor could the world of magic claim her entirely. She was something in between: a bridge, a whisper of destiny, written in the unseen currents of the cosmos.”

The Woman

The Legend

The novel The Corpse Door first introduced the Shirley family: shopkeepers in a quiet town you’d only find by accident.
Her mother—a deity granted human life—chose mortality for the sake of love.
It was a decision that altered the fabric of the world, and from it, Mabel was born.

The Stories

Mabel was a character I simply couldn’t let go of. She clung to me as I wrote the first episode of this series.
I could have chosen any of my creations, but she called out—and I followed.
Mabel is a force of nature, and of magic.
In The Corpse Door, she might appear to some as a minor character, but there’s one scene—one moment—where she shines so brightly that it changed everything.
That moment was enough for me to devote the rest of my writing life to telling her story.

Are You Ready for a New Heroine?

We’re not talking about a stick-waving witch or a flawed magical princess.
Mabel is one of us.
She doesn’t have all the answers. She dreads the next problem that comes knocking—especially when it risks those she loves.
She longs for connection in a world growing ever stranger, ever darker.
But she doesn’t run.
She faces what others cannot. She sees what others deny.
And still, she hopes.

If this sounds like your kind of story…

Then perhaps you, too, walk between worlds.