The Black Ore is the first book in The Candari Series. It is the story of a normal boy and his father who stumble upon the most powerful artifact in the universe. The young boy unknowingly binds himself to the artifact permanently. The artifact gives the boy abilities like that of a demigod. Through the boy's journey to mastering his abilities, he finds others with artifacts of their own, and soon is drawn into a civil war that he did not intend to...