She had only wanted to have a working marriage and a happy family. All of her efforts had been towards that goal. Despite that, her husband leaves her for another woman after the loss of her unborn child, and just as she starts to pick herself up, she dies in a car accident.

But this isn't the end of her story.

Her spirit is picked up by her brother. He happens to be a beginner god who needs help raising the hero who is supposed to save his fledgling world. Thinking he is offering her a long-sought-after opportunity to be a mother, she readily agrees, and he sends her down to his world with the gift of healing and a Methuselah grade body to aid her on her quest. She quickly finds her little boy and is overjoyed to have someone to love and baby at last. But this hero doesn't want her as his mother. He wants her as something else.

Suggested for ages 14+. 

Raising a Hero is created by T.S. Lowe, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Raising a Hero

I was definitely woozy when I got back up, but I insisted that I could work, so I switched places with Hal to keep the façade going and Milly went back to the kitchens, but we needn't have bothered. Most of the regulars had left, and those who'd seen a bleeding guy were on their way out too. The only ones that remained were those still worried about Derrick. I told them that we'd managed to knock him out and planned on taking him to the temple in the morning, but that didn't reassure them. If anything, their faces scrunched up horribly.


"Aye, I forget sometimes you're not from around here," said one older man with a large wart covering half his nose. "I don't know how they handle healers where you're from, but here the church is lucky to hold on to any they find. Usually the crown takes the best of them. They only healer they've left us here isn't much good. If it's a small fix, just something that can't be reached--"


Chapter 24