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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). ""A delightful twist on both the haunted-house and beach-read genres."" --Carissa Orlando, author of The September House 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.

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""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 ""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

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Jacquie Walters is the author of Dearest and an Emmy-nominated writer who has sold five pilots in the last three years. She is currently adapting Melissa de la Cruz's bestselling book series Blue Bloods for television and has placed projects at Apple TV+, ABC Network, Paramount Plus, iTV, CJ Entertainment, and others. In all, she has written and produced over 100 episodes of television. Walters graduated from the Novel Writing Program at Stanford University and is passionate about layered mysteries, psychological anomalies, and characters with everything to hide. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, and beloved Golden Retriever.

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