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

Agonizing sympathy clutched me like claws. It hurt more than any wound I'd ever had.


Because I knew the pain twisting up her face and body all too well.


My eyes filled with tears so thick I couldn't see her anymore.


"Oh, dear," I chocked. "Oh, you poor, sweet thing."


Somehow, seeing me start to cry opened up the flood gates the rest of the way, for her she gave a half-choked wail.


"Harder than you ever could. Harder than anyone."


She bent in half over my shoulder and let it out in long, unhindered noise. There was nothing beautiful or wonderful about the moans and mewls against my shoulder. I found myself echoing her and holding her tight.


"I know, I know," I cried. "I lost my baby boy too. My pregnancy had been so hard, I had been so sick."


"Yes. He had the most perfect little feet. But he was dead before he was born."


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