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 woke up not wanting to, and while the morning was still gray nonetheless. Alas, my sweet sleep had been taken hostage by the great villain's of mornings: full bladder and empty stomach.


I whined at the horrible unfairness of it all and nuzzled my face into the warm smell goods I'd snuggled up to in the night. I knew it was Gus. How could I not know the smell of my Gus, even as musky as he'd gotten with age? I had loved cuddling with him when he had been tiny and bony. Now that he had become big and muscly it just made getting up in the morning all the harder. Why did the world wish to take me away from all that was wonderful?


I didn't bother moving until my bladder threatened to embarrass me in front of my boy plush and his dragon. I could feel the imprints the grass had left on my face as I did so. Gus and Moonfall had caged me in over the night, so I had to literally crawl over Gus to get out, waking him in the process.


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