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

The wind wizard's body did not match the youth of his face. I only had to brush my senses against the many buzzing strands of his organs and blood to read years of alcohol and drug abuse, all of which had been suppressants, which left his body overly dependent on the need for outside calming, leaving his body's natural ability to produce cortisol and other stress-calming related hormones atrophied. The body, after all, is built to adapt to its environment, artificial or not.


Even as I focused in on his lungs for the first time, I could see through their tissues to his heart, which fluttered too rapidly for an at rest state. In turn, it pushed his scarred, swollen lungs to breathe faster, though I could tell that it was only through the wizards conscious efforts that he hadn't hyperventilated. I hadn't even heard him breathing. Deep will indeed.


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