Chosen — Jolea Harrison

Curiosity kills the cat and it isn't at all forgiving to a young, inexperienced telepath. He should have listened when he was told not to pick up that odd looking talon he found.

It turns out to be cursed.

Dynan Telaerin finds himself on a corpse-strewn hillside, uncertain if he's dead or alive, and Hell is everything it's cracked up to be when you're running for your soul.

He's charged with saving his long dead, also cursed ancestor, who was the most powerful telepath to ever exist. Dynan's own telepathic powers aren't much good to him.

There are monsters and minions hunting him down. Way too many of them can fly.

The demon's lair isn't the place to learn anything - except how to run and how to hide. In this realm, it's possible to die twice.
But when he finds out they've taken his brother, Dynan will do anything to get him back.

What lengths will he go to?

Will courage be enough to face the greatest evil to exist?

Or will he lose his soul to save everyone else?

The running starts and doesn't stop in this action-packed adventure of a young man coming to terms with his life while he's barely a spirit, and through horrors he thought existed only in dreams.

Chosen is the first book of the series, The Guardians of the Word. The Chronicles are: Chosen, Myth, Telepath, Legend, Union, Seer, Adept, and King.