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

I closed my eyes as he fingered through my thoughts, delicately, as though they were made of thin, thin glass. He followed the train of thought to the memories. It reminded me of how, with memories, if the mind didn't bring up the memories from long-term storage itself, the mind magician had to give up their own memories in return for the others; a sort of two way street. It made me want to offer them all so that I could see Gus's in turn.


"We can do that," he said gently. "But if we do that, neither of us will get any sleep, and Roman's going to be out for my blood first thing in the morning."


I heard his voice through the ruffling of magic through my thoughts, giving me an odd sense of vertigo as he backed out to allow me awareness of my surroundings again.


"I'm surprised he didn't come with you," I said.


He smirked. "I may or may not have mentioned you in my report."


"...couldn't you get, I don't know, seriously punished for that?"


Chapter 152