# Event Details - **Event Name**: Erin Craig | OUR STRANGE DUET | Presented by Sidetrack Bookshop - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 19 Sep, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Sat, 19 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Erin Crain will be in conversation with Aimée Carter to talk about Erin's new young adult novel, OUR STRANGE DUET!About this EventSidetrack Bookshop presents author Erin Craig to celebrate her new young adult novel inspired by Andrew Lloyd Weber's Phantom of the Opera. Our Strange Duet spotlights Christine Daaé as she rises to fame while torn between love, ambition, and the haunting secrets of the opera house.Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026, 6:30pm - 8pm. Doors open at 6pm.Location: Sidetrack Bookshop, 325 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak, MI 48067Tickets:$31.50 - Includes one general admission seat to the event and signing line with one copy of .$36.50 - Includes two general admission seats to the event and signling line and one copy of .$5 - Includes one general admission seat to the event and signing line.Additional copies of will be available for purchase at the event (while supplies last).Parking in the Center Street Parking Garage located just north of Sidetrack Bookshop with entrances on both Washington and Center Streets is free for the first two hours and costs only 75 cents per hour thereafter, Monday through Saturday.Please read on for more information about the event.About Our Strange DuetShe was never just the voice he shaped . . .A rising soprano with a gift she is only just learning to embrace, Christine Daaé has moved through the glittering world of the Opera Populaire longing to find her purpose. Instead, she finds herself caught between two men who refuse to let her slip quietly into the chorus.One is Raoul, her childhood friend turned devoted admirer, offering her a future filled with warmth, safety, and a love that feels like sunlight. The other is a mysterious masked figure who lurks beneath the Opera House: The Phantom. His brilliance, obsession, and dangerous devotion to nurturing Christine’s talents ignites a dark and complicated passion in her heart.As Christine’s star ascends, so does the tension between Raoul and the Phantom. She must decide who she is when the curtain falls—and what she’s willing to risk for the life she wants.Set against the sweeping, romantic world of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, Our Strange Duet allows Christine Daaé to take center stage to tell her own story: fierce, emotional, and unforgettable.About Erin CraigERIN A. CRAIG is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows, Small Favors, House of Roots and Ruin and The Thirteenth Child. She has always loved telling stories. After getting her BFA in Theatre Design and Production from the University of Michigan, she stage-managed tragic operas filled with hunchbacks, séances, and murderous clowns, then decided she wanted to write books that were just as spooky. An avid reader, decent quilter, rabid basketball fan, and collector of typewriters, brass figurines, and sparkly shoes, Erin makes her home in West Michigan with her husband and daughter.About Aimée CarterAimée Carter is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the award-winning author of more than a dozen books, including the series Royal Blood, the Goddess Test, and the Blackcoat Rebellion, as well as the Simon Thorn series for middle-grade readers, now a #1 internationally bestselling series under the titles Animox and Die Erben der Animox. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/royal-oak/erin-craig-our-strange-duet-presented-by-sidetrack-bookshop/100001990703629143 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, theatre - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - door_time: 2026-09-19T22:00:00Z - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: Sidetrack Bookshop - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 6.24, max: 39.32, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Royal Oak - **state**: MI - **country**: United States - **location**: Sidetrack Bookshop - **lat**: 42.4873959 - **long**: -83.14631659999999 - **full address**: Sidetrack Bookshop, 325 S. 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Is it right for me? - **A:** Erin Craig | OUR STRANGE DUET | Presented by Sidetrack Bookshop is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Royal Oak, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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