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

Across the little village square, the door of a house clicked open and shut, followed by the click-tapping of a cane across wood.


"Did I hear a horse? Do we have visitors?"


An ancient, bowed over little old woman made her way down the few steps from her porch, squinting through the soft daylight towards us. 


"Just a man calling himself a prophet, and his companion a saintess."


"A saintess?" She seemed to perk up. A breeze picked up some wayward white strands from the bun on her head to stand them up as well.


"Yes. The kids went to bring in the others from the field. Man says he has a miracle to prove his worth."


The little old lady shuffled over to us, her cane a might more muffled against the hard-packed earth of the square. I watched her with a growing smile. She reminded me of the first person I had ever met in this world, who'd very kindly given me directions and some food after I'd healed her hump, not much different from hers.


Chapter 139