Gavin Pace was born during a thunderstorm in a small town in Kansas, the kind of place where nothing ever happened, which is precisely why he left.

At nineteen, after a devastating heartbreak involving a woman who ran off with his best friend and his truck, Gavin did what any reasonable Midwesterner would do: he flew to France and enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. For five years he served in the 2e REP (the elite paratrooper regiment, naturally), jumping out of planes over Djibouti, running missions in the Sahel, and learning to survive on cigarettes, black coffee, and spite. He became fluent in French, passable in Arabic, and absolutely lethal with a knife. His commanding officer once described him as "the quietest man I've ever seen do something incredibly loud."

It was during a deployment in Chad that everything changed. Pinned down in an abandoned village, waiting for extraction that might never come, Gavin found a water-damaged paperback in the rubble: a dog-eared copy of a fantasy romance novel. He read it in one night by flashlight, and something cracked open in him. He finished his contract, collected his honorable discharge, and returned to the Midwest with a duffel bag, a Legion tattoo on his shoulder, and a single mission: to write the kind of stories that could save a man in the dark.

None of that is true... or is it?

What is true: Gavin Pace writes epic romantasy for readers who long for magic, impossible odds, and love worth sacrificing everything for. His stories follow unlikely heroes thrust into extraordinary worlds where ancient magic awakens in the wrong hands, courts are treacherous, and the right person can change the course of a kingdom.

He is currently building The Veldara Saga, a seven-book epic drawn from Celtic and Norse traditions. A sprawling world of political intrigue, warrior honor codes, druidic magic, and love tested by duty. The saga follows five core characters across rotating perspectives: an orphan druid discovering impossible power, a lord's daughter navigating politics and heartbreak, a reluctant king forged in the wilderness, a warrior maiden hiding in plain sight, and an elven mystic who leaves paradise for a world that needs her. Every book carries at least two active romantic threads. The love stories aren't subplots. They are the story. They hurt. They transform. They earn their endings.

He now lives somewhere in the Midwest, dreaming about the ocean and being judged by his cats. He does not talk about Chad. He does not talk about the truck.

He does, however, talk too much about knives.

- Gavin