Alexandra Sokoloff
Alexandra Sokoloff is a screenwriter, director and actor who is now writing thrilling horror novels.
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 The Price  |
The PriceAuthor: Sokoloff, Alexandra |
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 The Price  |
The PriceAuthor: Sokoloff, Alexandra |
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Boston’s Briarwood Medical Center is a bewildering maze of six separate hospitals symbiotically entwined, connected by glass bridges, underground tunnels, indoor and outdoor gardens — its own self-contained city. But Briarwood, like every hospital, is also a threshold . . . to the other side. Idealistic Boston District Attorney Will Sullivan, son of a political family, is the front runner in the Massachusetts Governor’s race — until his five-year old daughter Sydney is diagnosed with a malignant, inoperable tumor. Now Will and his wife Joanna, whom he loves more than life, are living at Briarwood Hospital, waiting for their daughter to die. Joanna is slowly losing her mind with grief and Will himself starts to question his own sanity. He has begun to see bizarre and inexplicable things around him — patients disappearing from elevators, monstrous nuns watching from the shadows. A doctor assures Will that he’s suffering from a not uncommon stress reaction — the ongoing trauma of his circumstances coupled with severe sleep deprivation is bringing on these hallucinations. But Will knows there’s more going on at Briarwood. The strange occurrences seem to center around a dark, charismatic counselor named Salk who befriends Will and talks mysteriously about the power of faith to heal. Will is intrigued, but too much of a rationalist to believe — until he starts to see patients who have talked to Salk miraculously recover. One terrifying night, Sydney goes into renal failure and is rushed into emergency surgery. Joanna disappears that night and doesn’t return until morning. Sydney not only survives the surgery, but in fact has gone into remission. And Salk has completely disappeared — the hospital administration has no knowledge of him — he was never on staff at all. Will begins to suspect that Joanna has made a terrible deal to save their daughter’s life. Now he must uncover the truth in order to save them all. |
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 The Harrowing: A Ghost Story  |
The Harrowing: A Ghost StoryAuthor: Sokoloff, Alexandra |
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Baird College’s Mendenhall echoes with the footsteps of the last home-bound students heading off for Thanksgiving break, and Robin Stone swears she can feel the creepy, hundred-year-old residence hall breathe a sigh of relief for its long-awaited solitude. Or perhaps it’s only gathering itself for the coming weekend. As a massive storm dumps rain on the isolated campus, four other lonely students reveal themselves: Patrick, a handsome jock; Lisa, a manipulative tease; Cain, a brooding musician; and finally Martin, a scholarly eccentric. Each has forsaken a long weekend at home for their own secret reasons. The five unlikely companions establish a tentative rapport, but they soon become aware of a sixth presence disturbing the ominous silence that pervades the building. Are they the victims of a simple college prank taken way too far, or is the unusual energy evidence of something genuine and intent on using the five students for its own terrifying ends? It’s only Thursday afternoon, and they have three long days and dark nights before the rest of the world returns to find out what’s become of them. But for now it’s just the darkness keeping company with five students nobody wants and no one will miss. |
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Summary:
Title List:
1. The Harrowing
2. The Price
Weblinks List:
Alexandra Sokoloff.com
Notes:
Alexandra Sokoloff is one of the four members of MUSE, a group of four women who enjoy writing horror and each other’s company.
