4.7 (89 ratings)

Magpie

Name: Magpie
Rating: 4.7 (89 reviews)
Author: Parker A. Garner
ISBN: B0FM44PM95

by Parker A. Garner

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About this book

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Some houses don’t just haunt you—they claim you.

Maggie isn’t sure when she started to feel it—that slow drift into numbness. Her passions feel like distant memories. Her friendships are fading. Her own life feels like something she’s watching from outside her body. So when she follows her friends into a famed haunted house on Halloween night, she doesn’t expect to walk out changed—because she doesn’t walk out at all.

Inside the House of twisting shadows, something calls to her. Something ancient, hungry, and eerily familiar. She becomes Magpie, bound to the house’s twisted master, a dark mage who collects broken souls to fuel his magic. In one timeline, Magpie is pulled deeper into the house’s illusions and monstrous truths. In the other, years later, Maggie tries to rebuild her life, tries to outrun the darkness—until the house comes calling again.

When the mage steals the one thing tethering her to this new world, Maggie is forced to return—not to escape her past, but to confront the creeping dark inside her, and finally choose whether to surrender or fight for her life.

Magpie is a haunting, allegorical fantasy for fans of dark magic, lyrical prose, and stories that explore the shadows we carry within us.

Publication Date: May 25, 2026
ASIN: B0FM44PM95

Reader Reviews

cathartic 😭🫶🏻

October 3, 2025

I received this book as an ARC and honestly it’s probably one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. I just finished it and I’m crying. I feel seen. This is a beautiful story about a young woman fighting to LIVE again and as someone who can relate it truly is a fight. Thank you Parker for writing book and sharing it with us. ) One person found this helpful

Parker A. Garner has done it yet again

October 12, 2025

Parker A. Garner has done it yet again, and I'm still trying to process how deeply this book crawled inside my chest and made a home there. Because who has time for a typical haunted house story, anymore? Not me. This one is visceral. It's raw. It's not just the kind of book you devour...these pages devour you right back. Our FMC Maggie, has been drifting through life feeling like a ghost in her own body; she’s numb, disconnected, watching herself from the outside. When she strolls into the...

dark mages and a haunted house

October 15, 2025

I loved the multiple POV you get in this book. I’d say it’s like a psychological thriller mixed with dark fantasy. You’re going to get so many pieces to this beautiful puzzle that are going to fit together so perfectly at the end. I just love how the concept of this book made me evaluation my own life and how I show up for those around me. )

Get to the halfway point and you’ll be pulled in

October 3, 2025

This book gets a 4.5 out of me! The only reason this is getting a 4.5 instead of a 4 is because I keep thinking about it over and over and the story. Let's start this review off on what I didn't like. In the begging, it's not bad but it's not great. The story keeps jumping from future to past but I liked the way the author did the chapters as it has time stamps and you know if your reading current or past (except for when it comes to later in the book, the past is italicized and present is...

A Hauntingly Beautiful Book

October 3, 2025

💭 Quote 💭 “ Life has always been the key to death.” 📸 Main Characters 📸 Maggie/ Magpie Sean Irina Alister 🫶🏻 Tropes 🫶🏻 Dark Academia meets Haunted House Gothic World Dark Magic Morally Grey Duel Timelines 🦋 Summary 🦋 Maggie has been slowly drifting into numbness for a long time. When her friends and her decide to go to a famous haunted house for Halloween she never expects to become trapped. Something inside is calling to her and so she goes in search of it never expecting it to keep...