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

Gus asked me, with a face full of hopeful expectation, how I liked flying on his dragon as he chewed on a particularly thick piece of bacon.


"To be honest, I've had better flights."


He dropped the bacon. "You've had - you've flown?"


Which led me into telling him all about airplanes in my world, where one could step into a nice temperature controlled compartment that never rocked crazily and was even stable enough to eat prepackaged peanuts and juice before falling asleep.


I was laughing at his many shades of jaded disappointment when a knock came at my door. As I got up to get it, I couldn't help feel that this was starting to be the beginning of some sort of tv show: settled in my house, then the knock comes at the door to begin the episode. I glanced back to see if Gus could somehow sense with his magic who it was, but he just chewed, staring morosely at his plate. He must have been looking forward to showing off flying on a dragon with me.


Chapter 162