TURN OFF
THE LIGHT
By Jacquie Walters
Two women living centuries apart are bound by the same dark secret in this haunting horror novel by Jacquie Walters, author of Dearest and “a talent to watch” (Sarah Langan).
"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
The Devil enters through doors left open…
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.
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.
