Unintended Guardian

The Story within Unintended Guardian

The stories of the Mythos Legacy series take our real-world mythology and explore how they would apply to the beings if they really existed—but were hidden among us. In addition, these Mythos beings have their own storytelling legends, such as their myth of an oracle called the Great Owl, perhaps based on an owl associated with Athena, the Greek god of wisdom (One so wise as to see the future.).

Many of the ideas mentioned above, from guarding treasures to granting wishes, are echoed in Unintended Guardian. The story imagines what would happen to this blessed-by-the-sun being if he lost his treasure and became cursed instead. The story then explores the other mythological methods at his disposal he could use to try to regain his treasure, from oracles to leprechauns. The ideas of mating for life and healing abilities are both seen in the story as well.

A mischievous red-clad leprechaun also makes an appearance, along with his wish-granting and teleportation powers. Although the leprechaun doesn't seem to follow through with his promise after being captured, readers know that he found a way to help with the missing treasure. *grin*

How Does Unintended Guardian tie in to the Mythos World?

(Warning: Potential Spoilers Below...)

• Griff explains how he knows his treasure is not on the Mythos plane—he'd feel an imbalance. This idea of the potential for an imbalance is revisited in future books.
• Griff explains how his protection of a treasure is not like that of dragons, who own their treasure. The importance of his treasure bound to him echoes similar-but-different binding or claiming magic for the other races of Mythos.
• Readers see that shapeshifting races might be able to shift in degrees, with just a claw if necessary, and some have extra abilities, such as healing magic.
• In introduction, Griff mentions many of the other Mythos races for the first time: dragons, unicorns, faeries, gargoyles, and sirens.
• The rules of gryphon society versus leprechauns' magic hint at how each race has its own powers and limitations—and likely have different strengths and weaknesses against each other.

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Bonus Information

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Due to its short length, this book didn't require much research (although the locations of Kala's apartment and resort job are true to life). However, unknown to most, this story was originally written to participate in a "themed" anthology, with the theme of Mistaken Identity (thus, the idea of a mis-delivered package).

The anthology had an extremely limited word-count cutoff, which is part of the reason for this story's short length. (Anyone who knows Jami's blog knows that she doesn't write short naturally!) After the anthology fell through, Jami expanded the story, adding several thousand words, and released it as the meet-cute introduction to the Mythos story world we all know today.

Another aspect that adds fun to the story-behind-the-story is that after this book's release, Jami became friends on Facebook with the cover model, Sean Smith, and he's even been kind enough to boost her promotion efforts.