Lisa Peers | MOTOR CITY LOVE SONG | Presented by Sidetrack Bookshop

Schedule

Fri Feb 13 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Sidetrack Bookshop | Royal Oak, MI

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Celebrate Motor City Love Song, a new romance novel by Lisa Peers.
About this Event

Sidetrack Bookshop presents author Lisa Peers to celebrate Motor City Love Song, her newest queer romance set in Detroit's music scene. Lisa will be in conversation with The Detroit News reporter Melody Baetens!
Date: Friday, February 13, 2026, 6:30pm - 8pm. Doors open at 6pm.

Location: Sidetrack Bookshop, 325 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak, MI 48067

Tickets:

  • $24.08 - Includes one general admission seat to the event and signing line with one paperback 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 author Lisa Peers and .

About Motor City Love Song

No one knows why the queen of indie rock vanished from the Detroit scene twenty years ago. Now, her ex-girlfriend is determined to track her down—and what she uncovers will change everything.
After all this time, can love still strike a chord?
Detroit, 1997. At the Artemis Club, Paloma is chasing rock-and-roll stardom, with her girlfriend and manager Jace committed to making her a worldwide indie sensation. But when Paloma suddenly disappears from the public eye in 2001, Jace is left to pick up the pieces.
Two decades later, Jace learns The Artemis Club is in trouble. Saving it will mean tracking down Paloma, whose early-career hit just went viral. Paloma has her reasons for not wanting to be found, and Jace isn’t eager to reopen old wounds. Still, each keeps measuring her life against the love she lost. With the Artemis Club’s fate at stake, Jace and Paloma are pulled back into the scene they once ruled . . . and back toward each other.
Told in two voices, this sapphic salute to Detroit’s garage-band era shows that sometimes the truth is the most powerful love song of all.

About Lisa Peers

LISA PEERS is the Lambda Literary Award-nominated author of Love at 350° and has a passion for smart, funny love stories with well-deserved happy endings. She has acted professionally in San Francisco, produced TV and radio programs in Detroit, and is currently a creative director for an international marketing agency. A Harvard graduate with an MFA in acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Lisa lives with her partner, Dani, in metro Detroit, not far from their three grown children, along with their beloved cats and way too much yarn.

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