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

Once I rehydrated myself, which doesn't happen as quickly as you think, it was only to dry myself out once more by pushing water into Gus's system. I had to totter to the kitchens for more water, only to come to with Tim holding my pitcher and looking down at me as though he'd nearly tripped over a dead cat, not a person.


"You're going to get me fired," he said. "No, killed. Couldn't you have sent someone if you felt that bad?"


I scowled at him as I used my icy limbs to push myself up.


"Where did you get that water?" I asked, suddenly realizing something huge that I should have thought of before. "Does the duchy get their water all from the same place?"


Chapter 116