Shadowlands Press announced this week the release of a new novel written by Siloam Springs resident Lucas S. Roebuck. Waypoint Magellan is an action/romance/sci-fi and the first in a series. The book is available now in print format from Amazon.com, Books-A-Million, BarnesAndNoble.com and CreateSpace.com, as well as digitally for the Amazon Kindle platform.
To celebrate the book's launch, Shadowlands Press will be hosting a book signing and reading with the author at the 28 Springs banquet room in downtown Siloam Springs on Thursday, May 4. The public is invited to drop in from 6:30 to 8:30 and enjoy complementary coffee with the author. The author will read a selection from the book at 7 p.m. Books will be available at the launch for a discounted rate of $10 from its standard rate of $13.99.
The book follows Amberly, whose quiet, lonely life as a 19-year-old stellar researcher on Waypoint Magellan is upended when the spaceship American Spirit arrives, bringing a roguishly mysterious scientist, Dek. Magellan is a deep space outpost eight light years from Earth where interstellar ships find welcome harbor on the decades-long journey to the planet Arara.
Soon Amberly finds herself caught in the middle of an interplanetary conspiracy -- torn between Dek and the handsome, patriotic Marine, North. Amberly must decide what price she is willing to pay to discover the secrets of her late mother and her own guarded heart. Light years from help and trapped in the path of a lethal revolution, Amberly must rely on her wits and have faith in those she loves to have any hope of surviving the conflict that threatens the lives of everyone on Waypoint Magellan.
Roebuck is a former journalist and professor who works as an administrator at John Brown University by day and writes his Waypoint series of novels by night. His writing is heavily influenced by the science fiction properties Mass Effect and Battlestar Galactica, the noir novels of Dashiell Hammett, and the heroines of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Madeleine L'Engle and Willa Cather. He serves on the City Board of Directors of Siloam Springs, Ark., where he lives with his wife Cherissa and their four children.
General News on 05/03/2017