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

All my irritation with Gus vanished when he pulled back the covers and slid into place next to me. The bed had once fit the previous owner and his late wife, but I doubted either of them had been as big as Gus. Even so, as long as neither of us tossed and turned too much tonight, it was a comfortable fit.


He opened his arms and I didn't have to move. The dip of the bed made it so I naturally slid into them and got tucked against his chest. The contact melted away three years of lonely nights, and his warmth banished the memories of a cold bed keeping me up. I sighed happily and nuzzled my nose into the hollow of his throat.


"Hee, don't! You're talking tickles my nose." It sent vibrations down his throat, especially in his adam's apple, which sat atop the bridge of my nose.


"Aw, now that's tempting, but sleep time now." He patted my head. "The army's leaving in the morning."


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