Erin Craig | OUR STRANGE DUET | Presented by Sidetrack Bookshop

Erin Crain will be in conversation with Andrea Hannah to talk about Erin's new young adult novel, OUR STRANGE DUET!
Sidetrack 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 48067
Tickets :
-$31.50 - Includes one general admission seat to the event and signing line with one copy of Our Strange Duet .
-$36.50 - Includes two general admission seats to the event and signling line and one copy of Our Strange Duet .
-$5 - Includes one general admission seat to the event and signing line.
Additional copies of Our Strange Duet 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 Duet
She 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 Craig
ERIN 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.