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

"Dear God, Nehcor, brother, whatever you want to be called by...I'd usually just go to the temple for this, but you were a crappy planner and had to kick out your only priest. Yeah, it was for his protection from the agency of others, blah blah...blah...you know what? I just wanted to start this being a snarky smart-ass sister. I don't really feel that way. I...actually do miss talking to you." 


I breathed back a sniff, even as my eyes watered.


Outside the closed shutters I could hear the voices of the townspeople, a background of murmuring with the occasional shout, creak of wheel on stone, or a dog barking. Tankards clanked onto the shelf from behind the door, and I could hear Hal talking to someone up front, though not clear enough for the words. My bed had that neutral smell of sun dried cotton and straw, even though the mattress was filled with wool and feathers.


Chapter 122