Turn Off the Light

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). 

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.
 

• "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 Bad Things Happened in This Room
• Praise for Dearest
• "A fast-paced and frightening debut that explores the nightmares of new motherhood, with plenty of twists and scares."
  Rachel Harrison, bestselling author of Black Sheep
• "A raw and challenging rumination on motherhood and inherited trauma. Compassionate and compelling, Walters is a talent to watch."
  Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors and A Better World
• "Shockingly original and genuinely disturbing, this brilliant horror novel will hit way too close to home for millions of women."
  Kirsten Miller, author of The Change