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"A trip into the wilderness that turns into life-time adventure!
Stian is a young man in his late teens, recently orphaned but still an excellent hunter and tracker. He's engaged to the prettiest and nicest girl of the village and he's trying to get her parents more agreeable for marriage. The normal village life is suddenly disturbed when the Guardians, who's job is to guard and protect the whole kingdom, stop at the village and ask for assistance. Assistance of the tracker!
Both Stian and her fiancée understand that by helping the valued Guardians they would get more support to their relationship, but simple tracking and hunting trip turns out to be much longer and complicated than Stian originally believed. Not only that, in order to be successful Stian also needs to learn some new things about himself. He also must learn that not all the things are what they first seem to be and some of the childhood fairy tales weren't fairy tales at all.
Book I of a three book series of courage, betrayal and love located in the world of some magic, Elves and Trolls."

The idea is to post one chapter every Friday and there are 19 chapters total. Already now I want to thank my editors, especially TeNderLoin and Robin Pentecost for the huge amount of work they did with this story.

For those who cannot wait nineteen weeks: "The Guardians: The Hidden Heritage I (by Derek Palmer)" should soon be available as Kindle eBook.

- especially since most of it has been positive :) Of course there has been some criticism, too - and in that's more than okay. You don't need to like the way the story folds, it's also okay to point out the errors the the story. I read those comments and try to learn from those - maybe. No promises, however. I can be quite pig-headed.

A few words about factual errors and my way of writing: First, this far I haven't received a penny - or a cent - out of my writing. Maybe I'll get some some day, maybe not. But that's not the point, the point is that as long as things as like that there's no real need to think about 'the masses', what they like and what not. It still doesn't make you opinion totally irrelevant to me, not at all. It just means that I have the final say in the worlds I create with my words... - or then not: Some of you writers are story-tellers, the faithful messengers of the tradition of story-telling. To me writing is something else; it's a journey or a trip inside the head of the main character! Thus the first person point of view. Once that journey starts I may have outlined where I want to go, what I want to do and so on. Most of the time I know how and where this particular journey ends, but what happens between those points can be somewhat unpredictable.

Some of you have complained a bit about the factual errors in my stories - of course there are those and I'm sorry about them! However, as this writing is just a hobby to me my resources to check things while writing are a bit limited. Then there's another aspect: Occasionally I enjoy tremendously for action or science fiction movies. Does it bother me that with Natural Sciences background I often notice factual errors in those movies? Of course it does! Does it make me stop watching them? For sure it doesn't! Also story is a story is a story. In stories you can do things that cannot (hopefully) really happen. Like there probably aren't absolutely bad people - even if might think differently after reading Stephen King.

As a last point: I hope that none of you gets offended to a Finn for positioning some of his stories in States. The problem is that certain things could not really happen in any other place! You need the freedom, you need the possibilities and you need all that space. Okay, in Russia next to us would have all the needed space but some other parameters might be lacking...

However, after finishing this 'Collateral Damage' series I'll probably stay either in the fantasy world or in 'Once Upon a Time in Finland' -universe. Remember also to praise my editors, since from my blog posts you can see how bad my Finglish normally is.

Collateral Damage Book I will be finished today. Sorry about the limited amount of codes, but I didn't want to give too much away. Now, before too much feedback - please remember my initial warnings when I started posting.

...or maybe not quite that. But always exciting - when you open the voting of your story and you can actually see what the readers think about your creation, your story, your baby... - no, not really a baby. Not 'Collateral Damage'. Maybe I'm especially touchy with this one because the story was almost left unpublished after one review. One bad review. One. You pass on a story that you think is something different and also something that had been gyrating inside your head for some time until you gradually were able to pull it out. To write it out.

The moment you think you have a new story almost ready to be published you then hear that someone really, really hates it... After that it took some time to start writing again. And I had believed that I was thick-skinned, immune to the feedback. I guess that none of us really is.

Okay, if I only have time I'll try to post the rest of the chapters a bit quicker, maybe twice a week. No promises, though - as I also try to find time to finish the Book III.

Posted. Since I had some time, I decided to post the second chapter already. Voting will probably open after chapter 4. I'll try to keep on posting once a week, most likely during the weekend.