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

Sir Yoshime brought Gus in to the doctor's office much earlier than I had anticipated. Rather than the blood and bruises I had expected from a hard fight, Gus came in leaning heavily on his teacher with one leg completely out of commission.


"He ignored my warnings and pushed himself farther than the daily requirement of exercises," said the knight, his accented words wry.


I gave Gus my best flat look. Of course he didn't meet it.


"Wouldn't have bothered to bring him in otherwise. Getting wounds and healing them make the body stronger, unless--"


"Unless it's a ligament." Stupid things just got weaker every time you injured them. Had to do with their properties of being the connective tissue to the body and getting poor circulation. They also took much longer to heal than bones or muscle, which meant Gus would fall farther behind than he already was in a class of boys that had at least a few more years of training on top of him.


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