Jacquie Walters Books In Order

Publication Order of JacquieWalters Standalone Novels

Jacquie Walters is an American published author and an Emmy-nominated screenwriter.

She attended and graduated from the Novel Writing Program at Stanford. She has sold multiple pilots for television and adapted the book series Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz for television. She is passionate when it comes to layered mysteries, psychological anomalies, and characters that have things to hide.

Jacquie has also placed projects at ABC Network, Apple TV, Paramount Plus, CJ Entertainment, iTV, and more. She has written and produced in total over 100 episodes of television.

She is married and resides in Los Angeles with her family, which includes their two children and their Golden Retriever.

Dearest is a 2024 book by Jacquie Walters. The book was very well received and has been a B&N Best Horror Book of 2024, was named a Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award finalist, and was a Book of the Month Club Pick.

A new mother who needs some help ends up deciding that the time is right to open the door to her mother who she has long been estranged form. But it turns out that she ends up inviting something inside that ends up being much darker in this debut that tackles the long shadows that can often be cast thanks to family secrets.

Flora is a new mother and she is in love with her baby girl Iris, who has come along a few weeks early. With her husband still not at home because he is deployed, Flora is going to have to tackle being a parent all on her own and take on the newborn stage alone. She loses sleep many of the nights and as the nights start passing more quickly in a blur in their nearly empty home, the edges of reality start to blur.

Flora starts to become sure that she is losing her mind, but just as she does, a guest shows up to help that catches them all by surprise. This is Flora’s mother, who she has not spoken to in years. It’s possible that they can heal their relationship, but there also might be more that Flora’s mother is not telling her when it comes to the events that ended up leading to their being estranged in the first place.

More events start unfolding and they increasingly get scarier and stranger as things go on. Flora starts to get worried that the secrets that her mother keeps have actually led to something evil coming into their home. She has to decide and figure out whether the hold that she has on reality is going away or if she is the sole thing that is between her baby and a visitor? Read this book to find out.

Turn Off the Light is a 2026 book by Jacquie Walters. If you enjoy a book that features ghost stories, this book might just be the one for you. Author of The Winter People Jennifer McMahon says that this book is going to upend ‘everything you think you know about ghost stories’.

This is the story of two different women who are living apart by centuries who are tied together with the same dark secret in this novel that is positively haunting. This book has been revealed to be a ‘delightful twist on both the haunted-house and beach-read genres’.

They say that the Devil comes through the doors that have been left open. On the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Edith serves as a healer and a woman of knowledge, as well as a woman watched. She’s picking up on things that seem off to her. Shadows are moving where they should not and whispers are moving through the dark. Edith is scared that she has somehow opened her home to the Devil and so makes a desperate choice.

Claire is someone who doesn’t really believe in ghosts but all of that is about to change. When she goes home to care for her father who is dying, she finds herself in her childhood home. But she isn’t looking around and things aren’t strange. She’s just listening.

One night without sleep goes into the next and as it does, Claire starts getting convinced that there is something beneath the floorboards that is stirring. It seems like it is something that has been waiting a long time out there to rise.

It could be that the house is haunted, and the others aren’t sure what is behind this lurking darkness. The danger gets even bigger and Edith and Claire start to find out that they are going to need the other one if they want to survive.

The only problem with this is that they have about 400 years between them, and time is running out for each of them. Will they be able to figure out what to do and can they each get the end result that they both desire? Read this compelling book from Jacquie Walters in order to find out!