The Search for Fierra - Empyrion, Bk 1 Author:Stephen R. Lawhead Orion Treet, an itinerant and often-unemployed writer, is abducted at gunpoint. Then he is offered eight million dollars and the adventure of a lifetime. The mission? To observe and chronicle the growth of a new extraterrestrial colony: Empyrion. — Arriving on the planet Fierra, Treet discovers a civilization in decline, fragmented by millennia o... more »f mistrust and hatred. To survive, he and his odd assortment of companions must unscramble the mysteries around them . . . before time runs out for the settlement. « less