About this Event
Sidetrack Bookshop presents author Jamie Pacton to celebrate her new sapphic, young adult fantasy novel. The Hyacinth Labyrinth is a whimsical adventure full of magic, fantastical road trips, and a sapphic slow-burn, friends-to-lovers romance—for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries.
Date: Saturday, June 13, 2026, 6:30pm - 8pm. Doors open at 6pm.
Location: Sidetrack Bookshop, 325 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak, MI 48067
Tickets:
- $26.25 - Includes one general admission seat to the event and signing line with one hardcover 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 The Hyacinth Labyrinth
All magic begins in stories. That’s what Fae princess Hyacinth has always been told. As the unmagical daughter of Queen Mab, Hyacinth has never fit in at her mother’s court. She hopes that if she learns about her father, who disappeared fifteen years ago, she can finally learn more about herself.
When Hyacinth and her friend Chloe—a human stablehand trapped in Fae—sneak off to a riverside night market, Hyacinth learns that her father was last seen heading to a library at the heart of a treacherous labyrinth. The problem: The labyrinth was built long ago by three goddesses, and no one has ever returned from it.
Still, Hyacinth has to try.
With the help of Chloe and a tiny dragon named Coffee, she defies Queen Mab and sets off into the wilds of the Moonshadow Kingdom. Along the way they face bandits, magical creatures, a centuries-old human who hosts an Endless Ball, and Hyacinth and Chloe’s growing feelings for each other. Meanwhile, an ancient power lies in wait at the center of the labyrinth, and it is eager to write the girls’ ending.
A lush, fairycore, sapphic YA fantasy that returns readers to the Fae world introduced in Jamie Pacton’s bestselling novel The Absinthe Underground!
About Jamie Pacton
Jamie Pacton is a bestselling, award-winning author who grew up minutes away from the International Storytelling Center in the mountains of East Tennessee. She has a BA and MA in English literature, and she currently teaches English at the college level. Her YA fantasy novels include The Absinthe Underground, an instant national bestseller. Her YA contemporary books include Furious, Lucky Girl, and The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly. Her adult fantasy romance debut, Homegrown Magic, published in 2025.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sidetrack Bookshop, 325 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak, United States
USD 6.24 to USD 28.56
