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

He sighed, probably thinking about how he shouldn't even be there or how undignifying it was to give in to cuddles, but he still scooted till our sides lined up. I threw a leg over his and leaned my head on his shoulders, only to reconsider at how bony it was.


"Boy, you need some muscle. I almost impaled my head on your shoulder, god damn."


"Did you see Sir Lucas's muscles at the duel? He was huge! You know how he got that?"


"Lots of food and lots of work, so you better eat a lot, you hear me?"


"You're stuffing me like a pig you're readying for slaughter, Lilly. If I eat any more I'm going to end up like Tim."


"I seriously doubt that. Now, mush, tell me how my boy's been doing with all the other kids. Beat any of them up?"


"Only way I'm going to win a fight at this point is if they put their heads on my shoulder."


"And there's some honesty! Good job, your humility knows no bound."


Chapter 91