TURN OFF THE LIGHT
Two women living centuries apart are bound by the same dark secret in this haunting novel that "upends everything you think you know about ghost stories" (Jennifer McMahon, author of The Winter People).
"After her phenomenal debut Dearest, Walters delivers a visceral horror that weaves two timelines 400 years apart into one stunning, unexpected collision. The scares hit hard, but it's the threads of humor, womanhood, and fierce female friendship that make this unforgettable.”
- C.J. Cooke, author of The Book of Witching and The Last Witch
“Part thriller, part supernatural tale, Turn Off the Light upends everything you think you know about ghost stories. Jacquie Walters shows us how the past, present and future are entwined, how a house can hold memories, and how it’s possible for two women, centuries apart, to save each other. A haunting and unforgettable read!”
- Jennifer McMahon, author of The Winter People and My Darling Girl
"Dark, smart, and hypnotic, Walters’ sophomore novel is its own kind of enchantment. Turn Off The Light slips between centuries with the assurance of a writer in full command, from a contemporary haunting to a 1600s witchy fever dream. A spiritual successor to The Haunting of Hill House, it delivers that same slow-creeping dread that nestles right under your skin. If garbage disposals didn’t scare you before, they’re about to.”
- Stephanie Wrobel, author of The Hitchcock Hotel and Darling Rose Gold
"A delightful twist on both the haunted house and beach-read genres, Turn Off The Light will keep you guessing, turning pages, and cheering on the heroines until the very end!"
- Carissa Orlando, author of The September House
"Walters threads the past and present together with precision and dread. Turn Off the Light is a chilling, time-twisting story that crawls under your skin and stays there—unsettling, relentless, and impossible to forget!”
- Marie Still, author of My Darlings and Bad Things Happened in This Room
"A wonderfully written thriller.”
- Daisy Pearce, author of Something in the Walls
On the isolated Eastern Shore of Virginia, Edith is a healer, a woman of knowledge—and a woman watched. Shadows move where they shouldn’t. Whispers creep through the dark. Terrified she has opened her home to the Devil, Edith makes a desperate choice.
Claire doesn’t believe in ghosts—until she returns home to care for her dying father and finds her childhood house… listening. As one sleepless night bleeds into the next, she becomes convinced something is stirring beneath the floorboards. Something that has waited a long time to rise.
Is the house haunted? What compels this lurking darkness? As the danger mounts, Edith and Claire will discover they’ll need each other to survive. But they are separated by four hundred years. And time is running out for them both.
The Devil enters through doors left open…
About Jacquie
Jacquie Walters is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter who has produced over 100 episodes of television. She has placed projects at Apple TV+, Paramount Plus, iTV, ABC Network, Legendary, and others. Jacquie graduated from the Novel Writing Program at Stanford University and is passionate about layered mysteries, psychological anomalies, and characters with everything to hide. Her debut novel Dearest was a Book of The Month Club pick, a B&N Best of 2024, and an Octavia E. Butler Golden Poppy Award finalist. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, and beloved Golden Retriever.
