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

"I'm sorry?" asked Arthur, the wind wizard.


"It would probably be better if I had something to draw it out for you - "


The poor man was practically bouncing in his seat. His thin, white-blond hair's frizzing ends rose a bit from static, though it gave him the image of his hair reacting to his emotions. Anime style.


I rubbed between my eyes and the bridge of my nose to try and release some of the remaining tension.


"Why not?" Oh dear, his voice had raised a pitch.


"Well, if I used magic I'd have to take out the extra uptakers one by one, and just to touch one of them I had to concentrate so hard that Dorius pulled me out." 


"It was also because you were concentrating for too long," she said.


He flapped a hand to her. "See! If you take a break, you could - "


Chapter 185