When she’s not writing, she’s teaching college English, obsessively reading obscure history, hiking, baking, or playing video games. The protagonists’ easy, undeniable chemistry, the shop’s fanciful impossibilities, and the heartbreaking price exacted by the starlight offer whimsy and introspection via a hauntingly romantic fantasy adventure. Jamie Pacton is an award-nominated young adult and middle grade author, who writes swoony, funny, magical books across genres. The Vermilion Emporium shines a light into the darkest spaces. She has a BA and MA in English Literature, and currently teaches English at the college level. After successfully completing a commissioned dress for Severon’s ruler, they’re thrust into the spotlight, making them a target for those craving the starlight lace’s power. Jamie Pacton is a Young Adult and Middle Grade author who grew up minutes away from the National Storytelling Center in the mountains of East Tennessee. The two hit it off immediately, and together they explore the shop, which unlocks Twain’s knack for finding starlight threads and Quinta’s affinity for weaving them into a magical lace capable of working miracles.
While evading his brother’s debt collectors, he stumbles upon the Vermilion Emporium, a mysterious curiosities shop, where he encounters pale-skinned photographer’s assistant Quinta, 17, who yearns to live up to the “great destiny” her deceased mother foretold for her. He’s sure that the thread of starlight he found on the cliffs by the coast is his ticket out. Light-brown-skinned Twain, 17, is desperate to leave Severon, where he’s plagued by his dead brother’s financial debts. Pacton ( Lucky Girl) deftly recalls the Radium Girls in this unique examination of class inequality and exploitation set against a provocative landscape.
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