Lee Gabel, Writer 🧡🍁✍️📖🇨🇦

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Horror / Urban Fantasy / Mystery / Contemporary ✍️ Multi-genre Author • Pro Oxford Comma • Pro Em-dash • 🚫GenAI "Keeping you up late... one page at a time." https://bookshop.leegabel.com

⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Molerat 2.0: Terror Burrows, Detest-A-Pest Case #3. Pictured: A mutant hybrid between a molerat and a tardegrade bursts out of a subterranean tunnel, hungry for human flesh. The golfers of Mar-a-Verde have no idea what's coming… Blurb: O’Connor, Sam, and Hope hit the road for what looks like an easy payday in a tropical paradise. What awaits them is beyond their worst nightmares.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Arachnid 2.0: Darkness Crawls, Detest-A-Pest Case #2. Pictured: A backlit and massive venomous spider with razor-sharp quills on its back crawls through an abandoned concrete conduit. Webbing stretches from the walls and floor. Blurb: Upon returning home for his senior year, Bradley uncovers a colony of man-eating spiders. But the spiders aren’t the only threat. Sam, O’Connor, and a new crew of inventive teens join forces to battle the mutant arachnids.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Vermin 2.0: Hunger Pains, Detest-A-Pest Case #1. Pictured: A massive rat with a grizzled ear, perched in the middle of a New York City street, staring at you hungrily with evil red eyes. Blurb: Sam, an ex-con with a rat phobia, joins forces with his estranged son, his neighbors, and a team of exterminators, to rid his Bronx apartment building of an infestation of super intelligent rats before they’re eaten alive.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Snipped: A Cutting Comedy. Pictured: A collage of a man (Ted), a woman (Casey), and a golden retriever (Buster) over a large symbol of a pair of scissors. Ted's grinning and Casey is at her wits end. Buster is waiting for his next snack. Blurb: Ted tries to improve his bedroom blues by getting snipped. But is the risk worth the reward when he finds true love?
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of David's Summer. Pictured: Deanna Sheridan holds her newborn baby David, swaddled in cloth. Spring foliage spans the background and the two are backlit by the setting sun. Blurb: After her newborn son is diagnosed with cancer, Deanna focuses on a cure. But when her husband raises questions of quality of life vs. quantity, she chooses to seek treatment options alone and risks not just the life of her baby, but her relationship with her family as well.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Tied: A Street Gang Novel. Pictured: Jess Garza stands with her back to the camera, holding a gun. A stylized image of Los Angeles appears in the background. Blurb: After being rejected by her older sister’s gang, Jess, a teen-aged girl from a troubled home, joins a rival gang and fights for her life on the streets of South Los Angeles.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of So Far So Close. Pictured: An old picture found at a recent family gathering that shows a moment between two best friends when they were sixteen. Blurb: His memories of her were hidden but not forgotten. Discovery of an old photo ignites a search for a best friend. But Luke can only remember her name. Roadblocks appear at every turn. Is the Universe telling him to stop? In one week Luke's efforts reveal a truth he must accept.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of So Far So Close. Pictured: An old picture found at a recent family gathering that shows a moment between two best friends when they were sixteen. Blurb: His memories of her were hidden but not forgotten. Discovery of an old photo ignites a search for a best friend. Luke can only remember her name. Roadblocks appear at every turn. Is the Universe telling him to stop? In one week, Luke's efforts reveal a truth he must accept…
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Arachnid 2.0: Darkness Crawls, Detest-A-Pest Case #2. Pictured: A backlit and massive venomous spider with razor-sharp quills on its back crawls through an abandoned concrete conduit. Webbing stretches from the walls and floor. Blurb: Upon returning home for his senior year, Bradley uncovers a colony of man-eating spiders. But the spiders aren’t the only threat. Sam, O’Connor, and a new crew of inventive teens join forces to battle the mutant arachnids.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Vermin 2.0: Hunger Pains, Detest-A-Pest Case #1. Pictured: A massive rat with a grizzled ear, perched in the middle of a New York City street, staring at you hungrily with evil red eyes. Blurb: Sam, an ex-con with a rat phobia, joins forces with his estranged son, his neighbors, and a team of exterminators, to rid his Bronx apartment building of an infestation of super intelligent rats before they’re eaten alive.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of David's Summer. Pictured: Deanna Sheridan holds her newborn baby David, swaddled in cloth. Spring foliage spans the background and the two are backlit by the setting sun. Blurb: After her newborn son is diagnosed with cancer, Deanna focuses on a cure. But when her husband raises questions of quality of life vs. quantity, she chooses to seek treatment options alone and risks not just the life of her baby, but her relationship with her family as well.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Snipped: A Cutting Comedy. Pictured: A collage of a man (Ted), a woman (Casey), and a golden retriever (Buster) over a large symbol of a pair of scissors. Ted's grinning and Casey is at her wits end. Buster is waiting for his next snack. Blurb: Ted tries to improve his bedroom blues by getting snipped. But is the risk worth the reward when he finds true love?
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Tied: A Street Gang Novel. Pictured: Jess Garza stands with her back to the camera, holding a gun. A stylized image of Los Angeles appears in the background. Blurb: After being rejected by her older sister’s gang, Jess, a teen-aged girl from a troubled home, joins a rival gang and fights for her life on the streets of South Los Angeles.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Lucid Fate, Dreamwaker Saga #3. Pictured: Jezebel, a blond-haired hellion determined to take everything from Wynter, including Wynter's boyfriend. Behind her is her black Barracuda. Blurb: Freed from her mind-altering limbo, Wynter’s sanity continues to erode. She needs her dreamwaker boyfriend back to become whole again. Jezebel has blocked every attempt and time is running out.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Lucid Revenge, Dreamwaker Saga #2. Pictured: Cash, Wynter's best and most loyal friend. He stands in front of a raging inferno. Blurb: Trapped within her own mind, Wynter must learn new ways to use her newfound powers. With no access to her dreamwaker boyfriend, she uses the power of dreams to convince her good friend Cash to help her find him. But Cash wants to be more than friends...
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Lucid Bodies, Dreamwaker Saga #1. Pictured: Wynter LaCroix, a fiery red-headed teen who discovers she can pull people from her dreams into real life. She's the daughter of African American and Native American parents. Blurb: Tired of waiting for a boyfriend, Wynter uses newly discovered powers to summon the boy of her dreams into physical form. When the local bully steals the boy for herself, Wynter enlists the help of her teen friends and the town sheriff to get the boy back. Mayhem ensues...
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover representing the Dreamwaker Saga: Lucid Bodies, Lucid Revenge, and Lucid Fate. Pictured: The three main characters of the Dreamwaker Saga: Wynter - Strong willed, fiery red-head, photography enthusiast. She lives in a trailer park with her mother and father. Wynter discovers her ability to make the people in her dreams real. Cash - Intensely loyal, a hard worker, a natural leader when he chooses to be. He has lived in the same trailer park as Wynter for most of his life. The two are good friends but Cash wants to be more than friends. Jezebel - Aggressive, remorseless, Wynter's sworn enemy. She drives a midnight black Barracuda around town and takes what she wants. Jezebel's intelligence is surpassed only by her sociopathic tendencies. Blurb: Take a trip into the past, where the line between dreams and reality blurs, friends become lovers, and the consequences can be deadly. Raise your fists with our heroes because their villains deserve a punch in the face.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Tentacle 2.0: Deadly Depths, Detest-A-Pest Case #4. Pictured: A view from within an underwater cave as a tentacle with teeth wraps itself around a woman's leg. Blurb: Bradley’s graduation celebration in Hawaii derails when a centuries-old curse is unleashed. The Detest-A-Pest crew battles unknown forces until Sam’s sudden and mysterious disappearance kicks the fight into overdrive.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Molerat 2.0: Terror Burrows, Detest-A-Pest Case #3. Pictured: A mutant hybrid between a molerat and a tardegrade bursts out of a subterranean tunnel, hungry for human flesh. The golfers of Mar-a-Verde have no idea what's coming… Blurb: O’Connor, Sam, and Hope hit the road for what looks like an easy payday in a tropical paradise. What awaits them is beyond their worst nightmares.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Arachnid 2.0: Darkness Crawls, Detest-A-Pest Case #2. Pictured: A backlit and massive venomous spider with razor-sharp quills on its back crawls through an abandoned concrete conduit. Webbing stretches from the walls and floor. Blurb: Upon returning home for his senior year, Bradley uncovers a colony of man-eating spiders. But the spiders aren’t the only threat. Sam, O’Connor, and a new crew of inventive teens join forces to battle the mutant arachnids.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Vermin 2.0: Hunger Pains, Detest-A-Pest Case #1. Pictured: A massive rat with a grizzled ear, perched in the middle of a New York City street, staring at you hungrily with evil red eyes. Blurb: Sam, an ex-con with a rat phobia, joins forces with his estranged son, his neighbors, and a team of exterminators, to rid his Bronx apartment building of an infestation of super intelligent rats before they’re eaten alive.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Snipped: A Cutting Comedy Pictured: A collage of a man (Ted), a woman (Casey), and a golden retriever (Buster) over a large symbol of a pair of scissors. Ted's grinning and Casey is at her wits end. Buster is waiting for his next snack. Blurb: Ted tries to improve his bedroom blues by getting snipped. But is the risk worth the reward when he finds true love?
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of David's Summer. Pictured: Deanna Sheridan holds her newborn baby David, swaddled in cloth. Spring foliage spans the background and the two are backlit by the setting sun. Blurb: After her newborn son is diagnosed with cancer, Deanna focuses on a cure. But when her husband raises questions of quality of life vs. quantity, she chooses to seek treatment options alone and risks not just the life of her baby, but her relationship with her family as well.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Tied: A Street Gang Novel. Pictured: Jess Garza stands with her back to the camera, holding a gun. A stylized image of Los Angeles appears in the background. Blurb: After being rejected by her older sister’s gang, Jess, a teen-aged girl from a troubled home, joins a rival gang and fights for her life on the streets of South Los Angeles.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Every Move They Make, Cherry Mills Mysteries #1. Pictured: Hardcover and/or paperback showing the title on a photo of youths raising their arms at their high school prom. Blurb: Someone is responsible for her son’s drug overdose... As a determined mom digs for justice, she uncovers an even darker horror within the peaceful suburb of Cherry Mills, one that will rock the community to its core as her son fights for his life. But what if she’s too late?
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Lucid Fate, Dreamwaker Saga #3. Pictured: Jezebel, a blond-haired hellion determined to take everything from Wynter, including Wynter's boyfriend. Behind her is her black Barracuda. Blurb: Freed from her mind-altering limbo, Wynter’s sanity continues to erode. She needs her dreamwaker boyfriend back to become whole again. Jezebel has blocked every attempt and time is running out.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Lucid Revenge, Dreamwaker Saga #2. Pictured: Cash, Wynter's best and most loyal friend. He stands in front of a raging inferno. Blurb: Trapped within her own mind, Wynter must learn new ways to use her newfound powers. With no access to her dreamwaker boyfriend, she uses the power of dreams to convince her good friend Cash to help her find him. But Cash wants to be more than friends...
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Lucid Bodies, Dreamwaker Saga #1. Pictured: Wynter LaCroix, a fiery red-headed teen who discovers she can pull people from her dreams into real life. She's the daughter of African American and Native American parents. Blurb: Tired of waiting for a boyfriend, Wynter uses newly discovered powers to summon the boy of her dreams into physical form. When the local bully steals the boy for herself, Wynter enlists the help of her teen friends and the town sheriff to get the boy back. Mayhem ensues...
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover representing the Dreamwaker Saga: Lucid Bodies, Lucid Revenge, and Lucid Fate. Pictured: The three main characters of the Dreamwaker Saga: Wynter - Strong willed, fiery red-head, photography enthusiast. She lives in a trailer park with her mother and father. Wynter discovers her ability to make the people in her dreams real. Cash - Intensely loyal, a hard worker, a natural leader when he chooses to be. He has lived in the same trailer park as Wynter for most of his life. The two are good friends but Cash wants to be more than friends. Jezebel - Aggressive, remorseless, Wynter's sworn enemy. She drives a midnight black Barracuda around town and takes what she wants. Jezebel's intelligence is surpassed only by her sociopathic tendencies. Blurb: Take a trip into the past, where the line between dreams and reality blurs, friends become lovers, and the consequences can be deadly. Raise your fists with our heroes because their villains deserve a punch in the face.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Tentacle 2.0: Deadly Depths, Detest-A-Pest Case #4. Pictured: A view from within an underwater cave as a tentacle with teeth wraps itself around a woman's leg. Blurb: Bradley’s graduation celebration in Hawaii derails when a centuries-old curse is unleashed. The Detest-A-Pest crew battles unknown forces until Sam’s sudden and mysterious disappearance kicks the fight into overdrive.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Molerat 2.0: Terror Burrows, Detest-A-Pest Case #3. Pictured: A mutant hybrid between a molerat and a tardegrade bursts out of a subterranean tunnel, hungry for human flesh. The golfers of Mar-a-Verde have no idea what's coming… Blurb: O’Connor, Sam, and Hope hit the road for what looks like an easy payday in a tropical paradise. What awaits them is beyond their worst nightmares.
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⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Arachnid 2.0: Darkness Crawls, Detest-A-Pest Case #2. Pictured: A backlit and massive venomous spider with razor-sharp quills on its back crawls through an abandoned concrete conduit. Webbing stretches from the walls and floor. Blurb: Upon returning home for his senior year, Bradley uncovers a colony of man-eating spiders. But the spiders aren’t the only threat. Sam, O’Connor, and a new crew of inventive teens join forces to battle the mutant arachnids.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Vermin 2.0: Hunger Pains, Detest-A-Pest Case #1. Pictured: A massive rat with a grizzled ear, perched in the middle of a New York City street, staring at you hungrily with evil red eyes. Blurb: Sam, an ex-con with a rat phobia, joins forces with his estranged son, his neighbors, and a team of exterminators, to rid his Bronx apartment building of an infestation of super intelligent rats before they’re eaten alive.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover representing the Detest-A-Pest series: Vermin 2.0, Arachnid 2.0, Molerat 2.0, and Tentacle 2.0. Pictured: Three of the creatures that the intrepid Detest-A-Pest crew battle in the book series. Blurb: Whether it’s super-intelligent rats, genetically-enhanced spiders, or blood-thirsty mutants, nothing gets under the skin of the Detest-A-Pest crew. Join the battle, won't you?
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Snipped: A Cutting Comedy. Pictured: A collage of a man (Ted), a woman (Casey), and a golden retriever (Buster) over a large symbol of a pair of scissors. Ted's grinning and Casey is at her wits end. Buster is waiting for his next snack. Blurb: Ted tries to improve his bedroom blues by getting snipped. But is the risk worth the reward when he finds true love?
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of David's Summer. Pictured: Deanna Sheridan holds her newborn baby David, swaddled in cloth. Spring foliage spans the background and the two are backlit by the setting sun. Blurb: After her newborn son is diagnosed with cancer, Deanna focuses on a cure. But when her husband raises questions of quality of life vs. quantity, she chooses to seek treatment options alone and risks not just the life of her baby, but her relationship with her family as well.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Tied: A Street Gang Novel. Pictured: Jess Garza stands with her back to the camera, holding a gun. A stylized image of Los Angeles appears in the background. Blurb: After being rejected by her older sister’s gang, Jess, a teen-aged girl from a troubled home, joins a rival gang and fights for her life on the streets of South Los Angeles.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Every Move They Make, Cherry Mills Mysteries #1. Pictured: Hardcover and/or paperback showing the title on a photo of youths raising their arms at their high school prom. Blurb: Someone is responsible for her son’s drug overdose... As a determined mom digs for justice, she uncovers an even darker horror within the peaceful suburb of Cherry Mills, one that will rock the community to its core as her son fights for his life. But what if she’s too late?
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Lucid Fate, Dreamwaker Saga #3. Pictured: Jezebel, a blond-haired hellion determined to take everything from Wynter, including Wynter's boyfriend. Behind her is her black Barracuda. Blurb: Freed from her mind-altering limbo, Wynter’s sanity continues to erode. She needs her dreamwaker boyfriend back to become whole again. Jezebel has blocked every attempt and time is running out.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Lucid Revenge, Dreamwaker Saga #2. Pictured: Cash, Wynter's best and most loyal friend. He stands in front of a raging inferno. Blurb: Trapped within her own mind, Wynter must learn new ways to use her newfound powers. With no access to her dreamwaker boyfriend, she uses the power of dreams to convince her good friend Cash to help her find him. But Cash wants to be more than friends...
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Lucid Bodies, Dreamwaker Saga #1. Pictured: Wynter LaCroix, a fiery red-headed teen who discovers she can pull people from her dreams into real life. She's the daughter of African American and Native American parents. Blurb: Tired of waiting for a boyfriend, Wynter uses newly discovered powers to summon the boy of her dreams into physical form. When the local bully steals the boy for herself, Wynter enlists the help of her teen friends and the town sheriff to get the boy back. Mayhem ensues...
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover representing the Dreamwaker Saga: Lucid Bodies, Lucid Revenge, and Lucid Fate. Pictured: The three main characters of the Dreamwaker Saga: Wynter - Strong willed, fiery red-head, photography enthusiast. She lives in a trailer park with her mother and father. Wynter discovers her ability to make the people in her dreams real. Cash - Intensely loyal, a hard worker, a natural leader when he chooses to be. He has lived in the same trailer park as Wynter for most of his life. The two are good friends but Cash wants to be more than friends. Jezebel - Aggressive, remorseless, Wynter's sworn enemy. She drives a midnight black Barracuda around town and takes what she wants. Jezebel's intelligence is surpassed only by her sociopathic tendencies. Blurb: Take a trip into the past, where the line between dreams and reality blurs, friends become lovers, and the consequences can be deadly. Raise your fists with our heroes because their villains deserve a punch in the face.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Tentacle 2.0: Deadly Depths, Detest-A-Pest Case #4. Pictured: A view from within an underwater cave as a tentacle with teeth wraps itself around a woman's leg. Blurb: Bradley’s graduation celebration in Hawaii derails when a centuries-old curse is unleashed. The Detest-A-Pest crew battles unknown forces until Sam’s sudden and mysterious disappearance kicks the fight into overdrive.
⭐ https://bookshop.leegabel.com ⭐ Cover of Molerat 2.0: Terror Burrows, Detest-A-Pest Case #3. Pictured: A mutant hybrid between a molerat and a tardegrade bursts out of a subterranean tunnel, hungry for human flesh. The golfers of Mar-a-Verde have no idea what's coming… Blurb: O’Connor, Sam, and Hope hit the road for what looks like an easy payday in a tropical paradise. What awaits them is beyond their worst nightmares.