Alexandra Sokoloff Books in Order
Explore Alexandra Sokoloff’s books in order, with brief summaries, series background, and simple guidance on where to start with her thrillers and supernatural fiction.
Last updated: July 14, 2026
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Publication Order
22 books
The Harrowing
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2006
Five college students remain on campus during Thanksgiving break as a violent storm cuts them off from the outside world. In an old dormitory, secrets and a disturbing presence turn a lonely weekend into a fight for survival.
The Darker Mask
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2008
A multi-author anthology of original superhero fiction, with a contribution from Alexandra Sokoloff. Its stories range through urban fantasy, crime, and pulp-inspired adventure, imagining extraordinary people fighting danger in many forms.
The Price
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2008
Boston prosecutor Will Sullivan watches helplessly as his young daughter battles an inoperable tumor. When she suddenly improves, he fears his grieving wife has made a terrible bargain with something waiting in the hospital shadows.
The Unseen
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2009
Psychology professor Laurel MacDonald joins paranormal researchers at Duke University after a life-changing dream. Re-creating a 1965 poltergeist investigation in an abandoned mansion, the team discovers why the original researchers did not survive intact.
Book of Shadows
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2010
Boston detective Adam Garrett investigates the ritual murder of a college student. A Salem witch insists the obvious suspect is innocent, drawing Adam into a hunt for a killer who may be using dark beliefs as cover.
Story Structure Basics
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2010
A practical writing guide that adapts screenwriting tools for novelists and scriptwriters. Sokoloff breaks down premise, structure, pacing, scenes, and revision into exercises designed to help writers turn a rough idea into a finished story.
The Shifters
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2010
New Orleans Keeper Caitlin MacDonald distrusts shapeshifters, especially bounty hunter Ryder Mallory. But when tourists begin dying from possession, they must join forces against dangerous entities before the city becomes the site of a supernatural massacre.
The Space Between
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2011
Sixteen-year-old Anna keeps dreaming about a massacre at her high school. When popular student Tyler has the same visions, they must work together to stop the future before the shooter, and the dream, destroy them.
Writing Love
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2011
A hands-on story-structure workbook for writers building romance into novels or scripts. Using examples from romantic comedy, suspense, and adventure, it explores character chemistry, emotional stakes, plot turns, and satisfying love-story arcs.
Huntress Moon
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2012
FBI agent Matthew Roarke investigates an undercover teammate’s murder and finds a mysterious woman near a trail of deaths. As he follows Cara Lindstrom across several states, he realizes she may be hunting monsters of her own.
Love is Murder
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2012
A wide-ranging anthology of romantic suspense stories from many thriller writers. Alexandra Sokoloff contributes “In Atlantis,” in which a jilted woman’s Bahamas getaway entangles her with a tempting stranger and a dangerous jewel.
Blood Moon
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2013
Twenty-five years after three California families were massacred, the sole child survivor is wanted by the FBI. Matthew Roarke’s search for Cara Lindstrom uncovers signs of fresh killings, making her both suspect and possible ally.
In Atlantis
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2013
After being left at the altar, Melissa heads to a luxury resort in the Bahamas to recover. A charming stranger and a jewel-encrusted shell draw her into a risky game where romance and theft may be impossible to separate.
Keeper of the Shadows
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2013
Hollywood journalist and shapeshifter Keeper Barrymore Gryffald investigates a teen shifter’s death and a suspicious studio-head murder. The clues lead to an old cult film, a long-buried tragedy, and people with supernatural secrets.
Cold Moon
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2015
Matthew Roarke thinks the hunt for Cara Lindstrom is over, until a teenage witness disappears and pimps begin turning up dead in San Francisco. A new killer seems to be copying Cara’s methods, with an even deadlier purpose.
Goddess of Fate
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2015
Undercover cop Luke Mars has twenty-four hours to solve his own murder. His only guide is Aurora, a goddess who says she has guarded him all his life, and who must decide whether love can alter fate.
Stealing Hollywood
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2015
Sokoloff shows writers how to study movies for useful storytelling tools. The guide covers three-act structure, sequences, pacing, set pieces, character arcs, and revision, helping novelists and screenwriters apply cinematic lessons to their own work.
Bitter Moon
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2016
After Cara Lindstrom escapes custody, Matthew Roarke follows a new lead into the California desert and her troubled past. The investigation links an old murder, vulnerable schoolgirls, and a predator whose violence has lasted for years.
Hunger Moon
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2017
FBI agent Matthew Roarke leads a task force targeting violent predators as ominous Santa Muerte symbols appear on college campuses. When a student vanishes, Cara Lindstrom is pulled back into the investigation and becomes prey herself.
Shadow Moon
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2019
On leave after a breakdown, FBI agent Antara Singh joins Roarke’s former mentor in Portland. A string of break-ins points back to murders of homeless young people, forcing her to uncover a frightening pattern from the past.
Shattering Glass
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2020
This benefit anthology gathers fiction from many writers, including Alexandra Sokoloff. Its stories explore resistance, survival, and women facing pressure, injustice, and danger from different angles and across several genres.
The Grapevine
by Alexandra Sokoloff
2026
When Lou Gomersall’s daughter disappears, the police dismiss her belief that other missing young women are connected. Lou takes the family RV across California to chase a new lead, determined to rescue Abby or find her killer.
Where should I start?
For a crime-thriller series: Huntress Moon → Blood Moon → Cold Moon → Bitter Moon.
For supernatural suspense: The Harrowing → The Price → The Unseen → Book of Shadows.
For witchy mystery and romance: Book of Shadows → The Space Between → Goddess of Fate.
For a contemporary missing-person mystery: The Grapevine.
Author bio
Alexandra Sokoloff grew up in both Northern and Southern California, the daughter of scientists and educators. She found an early home in musical theater, acting, singing, dancing, playing classical piano, and eventually directing plays as a teenager.
She also spent a year in Istanbul as an exchange student. It was a big early detour, and one of many experiences that later fed her interest in place, danger, and people who are pushed far outside their usual lives.
At the University of California, Berkeley, Sokoloff majored in theater. She wrote, directed, and acted in productions ranging from Shakespeare to street theater, trained in jazz and modern dance, and directed and choreographed musicals. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa, she moved to Los Angeles with a background built for storytelling from the stage outward.
Hollywood came first.
In Los Angeles, Sokoloff worked in a metaphysical bookstore, taught incarcerated young people in the county prison system, and read screenplays for studios while writing her own. Her first screenplay sold in a bidding war. She went on to sell suspense and horror scripts and write novel adaptations for major studios, work that helped shape the visual pace and tightly built scenes of her fiction.
Her debut novel, The Harrowing, arrived in 2006. It traps five isolated college students in an old dormitory during a storm, then asks whether the terror around them is supernatural, psychological, or both. The book established a pattern she would return to often: ordinary people under intense pressure, unsettling places, and questions with no easy rational answer.
Her early supernatural thrillers include The Price, about a Boston family facing an unbearable choice at a hospital, The Unseen, which draws on parapsychology research at Duke University, and Book of Shadows, a Boston homicide investigation tangled with witchcraft and ritual murder. Readers who like a mystery with eerie possibilities tend to find plenty to dig into there. Sokoloff is interested in the point where grief, fear, belief, and real danger start to overlap.
Then she moved into a different kind of darkness.
The six-book Huntress/FBI series follows Special Agent Matthew Roarke as he pursues Cara Lindstrom, a woman linked to a trail of killings and long-buried crimes. Beginning with Huntress Moon, the series mixes an interstate manhunt with a difficult moral question: what happens when someone targets people who have escaped justice? The later books, including Blood Moon, Cold Moon, Bitter Moon, Hunger Moon, and Shadow Moon, widen that conflict while keeping the focus on trauma, accountability, and the cost of trying to protect people.
Sokoloff has also written paranormal romance in the shared Keepers world, a young adult thriller, short fiction, and practical writing guides. Her books Writing Love and Stealing Hollywood turn screenwriting tools into useful exercises for novelists and screenwriters, using movies to explore structure, pacing, character arcs, and plot problems.
She now divides her time between Los Angeles and Scotland, where she lives with Scottish crime writer Craig Robertson. Together they launched the Lost Highway thrillers with The Grapevine, about a mother driving across California in search of her missing daughter. Away from the desk, Sokoloff has kept dancing, traveling, teaching, and finding new ways to turn a good story problem into something readers can follow into the dark.
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