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