Kevin Gabeci Books

Kevin Gabeci Books is the author's own catalogue site for his fiction, built so a reader can find a series, start reading immediately, and only then decide whether to buy. Every world on the site opens with a complete free story rather than a sample chapter, and the novels themselves are sold on Amazon. It's the shop window for a working writer rather than a storefront in its own right.

The free reads are the point of the place. Before Ravenshore is a detective thriller prequel novella of roughly 15,000 words across five chapters, readable on the site with no signup and no email wall. It covers the case Sarah Hartley doesn't talk about in the novel that follows, a trafficking investigation she couldn't let go of and the six hours she spent in a warehouse with a knife at her throat. The First Hunt does the same job for the dark fantasy series, opening on a village where flowers bloom in the wrong season. If you've ever bounced off an author page because it asked for your address before it showed you a sentence, this is the opposite arrangement.

The catalogue is organised by series. Investigating the Wicked is a dark fantasy thriller set in the world of Strohr, following Kavel, one of the last Investigators of a dying order, across five books plus a full colour graphic novel adaptation of the first arc. The through line is a hunt that keeps turning inward. The Conclave gets named in book two, book three sends Kavel west against its inner circle and further into becoming what he hunts, and book four rides south past the edge of every map to find where the wicked comes from, with an answer that turns out to have been waiting for his blood. By book five there's no doctrine left to hold and the war goes north to erase the place the order was born. The comic adaptation covers the first arc, The Silent Village, in full colour. Shadows of Ravenshore runs alongside all of it as detective fiction, centred on Sarah Hartley, and now has a second title in The Quiet Hand.

The standalones lean speculative and share an obvious preoccupation with technology and consent. Offline is a near future thriller about the seven days after the internet dies for good. Recall pitches a memory deletion startup against a journalist who might be one of its victims. Dead Internet follows an authenticity YouTuber pulling at the thread of synthetic engagement. Sleep Mode has a woman renting her body to an AI while she sleeps, then finding bruises and login records after she quits. Adjacent is the quietest of them, a literary novel about identity and regret once physicists confirm the versions of you next door are real.

Two more standalones round out that group. 0 Days works from the idea that reality has a codebase and somebody is exploiting a zero day in the laws of physics. Terms of Service collects nine speculative stories about the fine print everyone clicks Accept on, written as fables for an age where every object is a service. Read together, the standalones are less a genre shelf than a set of variations on the same worry, which is that the systems people depend on are quietly making decisions on their behalf.

Two titles sit outside the fiction entirely. Ship After 5 is a nonfiction playbook on building a profitable SaaS without quitting a day job, described on the site as the approach two Albanian developers actually used, covering AI prompting, payment infrastructure, k3s and launches with real numbers attached. Its presence alongside the novels tells you this is a personal body of work rather than a curated author brand, which is either a feature or a mismatch depending on what you arrived looking for.

The books section is one part of the writer's wider site, which also carries a portfolio, a blog, games and a consulting side. That matters mainly for expectations. There's no reader community, no forum and no membership tier here, and the catalogue is a single author's output rather than a storefront that will keep growing sideways. What it does offer is a clean path from never having heard of the writer to having read a complete story, without an account or a payment in between.

It suits readers who want somewhere to start without commitment, and who like sci-fi, mystery and thriller writing that circles the same anxieties about systems, surveillance and what you agree to without reading. The site runs in Albanian, English and German, and the writer is based in Tirana. Browsing and the free novellas cost nothing, the novels are paid on Amazon, and there's no subscription or membership layer in between.