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

He was quiet after that, considering my words as we chewed through our first piece of bread and butter. Then, he buttered another slice and gave it to me without asking, and I thanked him. 


"I don't know what magic words you're waiting for," he said at length. "I can only promise you that Derrick and Roman would never, ever do those things to you. I've known them for years now and I've had the chance to be in both of their heads. They're men of noble hearts, God fearing, who are not so immature and selfish or base as to think they can find greater happiness in the arms of whores than that of a loving wife and their children. Maybe that's the real problem with your world. Maybe everyone is just stupid enough to believe that true happiness is found by being selfish children for the rest of their lives."


I gave him a weak smile over my bread chunk. "And thus Gus condemns thousands."


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