Soulsnatcher

2nd Place Winner - 2014 Book of the Year - The Drunken Druid's International Book Award.Children with extraordinary psychic powers are being used as pawns in a deadly supernatural war. Jasmine "Jazz" Tandy and her nine-year-old son Chaz, who can heal people with his touch, are fleeing from a ruthless organization that kidnaps these children. Children such as Kaylee Daley, who can control and manipulate plant life, and Mara Fleming, who can see into the future. Their only hope for salvation is a covert group called the Guardians, who protect these children from the organization's merciless hunters.Dr. Larssen Sössnacher, the organization's leader-called "Soulsnatcher" by the remarkable children he abducts and exploits-believes Chaz is the miraculous prodigy who will grant him the immortality he craves . . . and he'll stop at nothing to get Chaz.Cody Jackson, a Guardian and martial arts and weapons expert, rescues Jazz and Chaz from Soulsnatcher's hunters and takes them to Homestead, a safe haven where the children learn to use their powers to help others. But Soulsnatcher's hunters raid Homestead and battle the Guardians in a surreal deadly showdown-with the souls of all the children as the ultimate prize.