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

Hal and Milly manned a cart that had a clay and stone oven built onto it. I walked onto the scene just as Hal pulled out a spatula laden with dark crusted bread. Milly froze with the balls of her hands deep in two mounds of white dough when she heard me call her name.


It was all the confirmation I needed. I ran to her and threw my arms about her, not caring about the flour and soot covering her.


I chirped her name over and over, but stopped abruptly when I finally registered the hard belly forcing me to bend in order to hug her. I pulled away to get a closer look at her.


She'd thinned, but still held much of her stout muscle. She looked tired, but her eyes were bright and her smile wide and true.


"That's usually implied when one is pregnant," she said, patting my head fondly. "My, you're still as beautiful as the last time I saw you. We were so worried."


Chapter 164