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

It was still raining when I left, since Derrick inevitably had to go to work and he didn't like the idea of me hanging around where sparks flew everywhere. He promised to return that basket when he came for dinner that evening, so my hands were free to tuck themselves beneath the shawl I held over my head.


Since Derrick's place was against the wall, I had to follow a branching street to get to the main one which was fed by the open city gates. Red Swallow Inn sat on this street, which was good location for any business.


I was just turning towards the inn when movement caught my eye. A figure, dressed in rags and scraggily long hair dripping, huddled within the shelter of the gate. Thinking of the time I'd found Gus, mostly dead in an alley, I trotted over to see what I could do. 


"Hello, are you okay? Do you need any help?"


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