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 wasn't instantly fixed, even if I had been picked up from the ground.


It was hard to concentrate or be involved with conversations. At some point I found myself sitting next to a fire and staring into it, not knowing how long I had been there. Gus and his boys moved about, cooking, setting up camp, talking, arguing, even engaging in the occasional visitor that came. Most of said visitors were looking for either me or Gus, but one older woman came looking for Carl to help her daughter with nightmares.


A little dark body handed one of the last apples from Gus's bag to me. I looked down at Kel's dirty nails, not able to remember when she had sat down next to me. After taking the apple, I looked up to ask, only to lose my question as I saw her red eyes. They looked far too knowing and grown up for her little face.


"Yeah," I said, rubbing the fruit on my dress, just in case.


"I don't like them. Hurt my gums. You can have them."


Chapter 192