✨ Our first book for May is The Pendragon Wytch by C.C. Davie! This dual timeline story reimagines everyone’s favorite famous Arthurian legend!

✨ R.A.D. EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:  ⁠

🌟 Signed edition!

🌟 A gorgeous exclusive new dust jacket with gold foil and spot gloss

🌟 Illustrated hard case with gold foil

🌟 Gorgeous art endpapers

🌟 Printed edges

🌟 Bonus Content: Short story

✨ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:

GENRE: Dark Fantasy

SPICE: ★★★★☆

REP: wlw, cis lesbian fmc, cis bisexual fmc, queer-normative world

CW:  Misogyny, degradation, murder, physical assault, gore, strong language, sexual content (including F/F and F/M scenes)

LENGTH: 348 pgs

✨ SUMMARY:

As long as I can remember my shadows have whispered to me, speaking in a voice both young and ancient. I have learned to mind them, let them guide me through life even when I do not understand their messages.

They whisper now to me, a song of sorrow and heartache that weaves itself around the woman I love. A song I do not want to listen to, yet know I cannot run from.

King Arthur has taken this land. Aided by his advisor Merlin and the legions he commands, he has swept over this once prosperous Kingdom like a plague, chasing the last of the Sylvyns into the far south in his quest for power.

They have nowhere to run now, there is no further to go and I fear the bargains that will be made to protect them are ones that will haunt me for the rest of my immortal life.

I was born touched by Nimmet, both a blessing and a curse.

— Morgana

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✨ Our second book for May is The Flowered Blade by Taylor Hubbard! This multi-pov story is an enemies to lovers romance featuring a fierce warrior and a soft healer!

✨ R.A.D. EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:  ⁠

🌟 Signed edition!

🌟 A gorgeous exclusive new dust jacket with gold foil and spot gloss

🌟 Illustrated hard case with gold foil

🌟 Gorgeous art endpapers

🌟 Printed edges

🌟 Bonus Content: Short story

✨ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:

GENRE: Romantasy

SPICE: ★★★★☆

REP: mlm, autistic transgender bisexual mmc, bisexual mmc, sapphic scs, nonbinary scs

CW: Death of a family member, consensual sexual content, Language used in a sexual context to describe the anatomy of a trans man which may be dysphoric to some readers, mild themes of slavery, mild body horror and gore, themes of: anxiety, harassment, death, torture, confinement, familial abuse (physical and psychological)

LENGTH: 530 pgs

✨ SUMMARY:  

Crown Prince, the elf Silvyr Quilen is the family disappointment. His father, High King Keryth Quilen of Athowen, wanted a son to follow in his image. A warlord who rules with no regard for those around him and will do anything to maintain his power, the king finds Silvyr's desire to spend his days in the flowers and libraries to be pathetic and useless.

Even so, Silvyr strives to receive his father's approval. On a diplomatic journey to Xeatia, where he was meant to collect taxes and return with a report on their financial situation, Silvyr is suddenly forced to confront the consequences of his fathers actions when the Orcs of Ghizol attack his caravan.

Chief Brokil of the Ghizol Orcs has been tasked with leading and protecting his people. For years he sacrificed and waged war to ensure the people who voted for him to lead could live in peace. For that reason, the risk was worth the reward. With the approval of the Ghizol council of Elders, Brokil executes his plan: Kidnap the Prince of Athowen, Silvyr Quilen, and send their ultimatum to the King. Leave Ghizol alone, or have his heir be killed.

Keeping Silvyr as his ward, Brokil finds that while the prince was the most annoying person he's ever met, he is also nothing like his father who carries the name Tyrant King. Absolutely bewildered and exhilarated, Silvyr and Brokil are forced to confront themselves and each other while the looming threat of Ghizol's demands hang over them.

The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our R.A.D. February 2025 theme is…

✨ COURTING THE FAE ✨

Read on to learn more! 🧵

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✨ Our first book for February is something a little bit different — In a special collected edition made exclusively for R.A.D., The Golden Apple Duet by Ali Williams (insta, twitter, tiktok: @claficionado, facebook: facebook.com/EllieRoseAliWilliams) collects the Godstouched Universe: The Apples Hung Like Stars, Their Fruits like Honey,  and Lure Me To The Deep, sapphic Tam Lin and Goblin Market retellings and bonus mermaid romance, into one volume! Oh, and we’ve also got a special surprise for you you’re going to have to wait to see!

✨ R.A.D. EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:  ⁠

🌟 Signed edition! 

🌟 A gorgeous exclusive new dust jacket with maroon foil and pearl accents

🌟 Illustrated hard case with pearl accents

🌟 Gorgeous art endpapers

🌟 Printed edges

🌟 Bonus Content: the short story Lure Me to the Deep

✨ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:

GENRE: Kinky Fantasy Romance

SPICE: ★★★★★

REP: wlw, cis white queer fmc, cis white fat sapphic fmc with ADHD, cis white fat autistic lesbian fmc, cis white lesbian fmc with depression, cis sapphic couple scs

CW:  death, skin burn, explicit sexual content, including kink, consensual non-consent, anxiety panic, depression, trapped in water, explicit sexual content including kink and power play

LENGTH: 182 pgs

✨ SUMMARY: People have warned me away from the Golden Apple, that it's not a place for nice girls. But something draws me there anyway...to this club run by Dommes with magic at their fingertips.

Because I'm not as nice a girl as I seem. And when Cliodhna promises a night of exquisite pleasure, I'm ready to sign away my very soul in exchange.

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My sister never came home from her night at the Golden Apple, and as cautious as I am...I'm just as loyal. So into the Dommes' lair I go.

But when I see Aoibheall, all raging beauty and fury wrapped up in one, I find myself giving over to the pleasure that her eyes promise.

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In Ireland, freed after being trapped behind the Veil, the fae are reasserting their powers and indulging their desires...

Asking the God of the Sea for company is ill-advised, but when he sends his sister-in-law to keep me company, I'm dazzled. Enthralled.

Because Li Ban is a mermaid goddess, with power over the ocean... and over me. I'm not sure I can resist her charms, and I'm not sure that I want to...

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✨ Our second book for February is The Musician & the Monster by Jenya Keefe (insta, twitter, tiktok: jenyakeefe)! This wonderfully haunting and sweet book is also filled with spice, music, and… podcasts with the fae?

✨ R.A.D. EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:  ⁠

🌟 Signed edition! 

🌟 A gorgeous exclusive new dust jacket with white gold foil and iridescent gloss

🌟 Illustrated hard case with matching white gold foil and iridescent gloss

🌟 Gorgeous art endpapers

🌟 Printed edges

✨ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:

GENRE: Fantasy Romance

SPICE: ★★★★★

REP: mlm, bisexual mmc, pansexual mmc, gay male scs, queer scs

CW: abduction, hostage situation, homophobia, transphobia, Interspecies relationship, power imbalance, trust issues, explicit sexual content

LENGTH: 301 pgs

✨ SUMMARY:  Hatred is a spell only true love can break.

Ángel Cruz is a dedicated session musician, until loyalty to his estranged family forces him to work for the feared and hated envoy from the Otherworld. Overnight, Ángel is taken from his life, his friends, his work, and trapped in a hideous mansion in the middle of nowhere, under constant surveillance, and with only the frightening fae for company.

Oberon’s poor understanding of humans combined with Ángel’s resentment and loneliness threaten to cause real harm to the pair. Then a long winter together in the mansion unites them in their love of music. Slowly, Ángel’s anger thaws, and he begins to realize that Oberon feels alone too.

Gradually, these two souls from different worlds form a connection like none other. But hate and prejudice are powerful things, and it’ll take all the magic of their love to stop the wider world from forcing them apart.

Happily Ever After? Pssh! That’s for amateurs - we here at R.A.D. want a little spice with our fairy tales! Both books for November are queer retellings of well-known tales, with the heat blazing! Welcome to the November 2024 R.A.D., a little something we like to call…

🏴‍☠️SEXILY EVER AFTER🍃

OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE EDITIONS FEATURE:  ⁠
- New fully-redesigned dust jacket

- Foiled & illustrated hardcase

- Art endpapers

- Author letter

- Bonus scenes

- Signed bookplates

🏴‍☠️Book 1 is the sizzling and heartfelt Of Tides & Snow by Darva Green

🏴‍☠️ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE: 

REP: wlw, lesbian mc, bisexual mc, achillean and non-binary scs, queernorm world

HEAT: 5/5 ★

GENRE: Adult Fantasy
LENGTH: 341 pgs

🏴‍☠️ SUMMARY: A runaway priestess. A pirate with a strange curse on her heart. A sea full of monsters.

On the night when Gwen is meant to commit herself to the Moon Coven, an attempted murder sends her running from the only home she's ever known. There aren't many willing to risk helping an escaped high priestess, but one pirate is up for the impossible task—at a steep price.

Morgen is a cold leader, and Gwen isn't sure if she's a passenger or captive as she boards The Ruined Soul.

Her hidden magic might be the thing to thaw the captain's heart, but a strange, dark curse will turn seduction into a dangerous task.

🍃Book 2 is a smoldering tale of old pals and self-discovery, Far From Neverland by River Hale

🍃 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE: 

REP: mlm, gay mc, pansexual mc

HEAT: 5/5 ★

GENRE: Adult Fantasy
LENGTH: 311 pgs

🍃SUMMARY: Peter Pan left Neverland and grew up. Now I want him back.

It’s been fourteen years since he left, since Neverland’s star died out, since a blanket of frost fell over the island. Despite the Jolly Roger being anchored in a layer of ice, I’m not yet willing to give up this perfect, Peter Panless Neverland.

Well, it’s not completely perfect. A threat looms here, a shadow devouring the island. I don’t want Pan back, but he’s the only one who can stop it. However, when I find him, there are two problems.

One, Peter Pan has no memory of who he really is.

Two, I can’t seem to resist him.

Making him remember isn’t going to be easy, and not just because I hate him like sin, just like all the sinful thoughts he inspires. I can’t allow him to distract me. The fate of Neverland hangs in the balance.

The old Peter Pan has died, and a new one’s risen from his ashes. He’s a star—Neverland’s sun—and I don’t care if I get burned.

You like them, but they’re cool. You might even say cold. So frustratingly frigid.. But in the August 2024 R.A.D. we’re taking these Ice Queens and Kings and…

🧊🔥THAWING THE ICE🔥🧊

Both books are getting the full Rainbow Crate special edition treatment:🔥completely redesigned dust jackets
🔥art endpapers
🔥case art or foiling
🔥printed edges
🔥bound in author letters
🔥signed art bookplates

🧊Book 1 is the dark but surprisingly heartfelt Exposed by H.L. Day.

🧊Summary: Sometimes salvation comes from the most unlikely hero.

When Tate Gillespie is marked for death for a crime he didn’t commit, his life crumbles. In a world where ‘justice’ is meted out by a relentless military force, he’s going to need more than a mythical guardian angel. 

X is a shadow. A wraith. A man who flits through the city virtually unseen. He’s got no time for people when knives are far more reliable. X does have one weakness though—the man he's been keeping safe for years who doesn't even know it. He'd burn the whole world to keep him alive. But what he won't do is stake his claim. Tate’s not his and he needs to remember that, no matter how close they might become.

With the military in hot pursuit, they’re going to need to rely on X’s skills to keep them both alive. Tate’s feelings are growing with every hour they spend together, but X is a tough nut to crack. It’s all about survival. Not love... Isn’t it?

🧊Spice level: ★★★★★

🧊Rep: mlm, gay mc, queernormative world

🧊Length: 401 pages

🧊Genre: Post-apocalyptic Action Romance

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🧊Book 2 is a sexy tale of self-discovery, A Whisper of Solace by Milena McKay.

🧊Summary: What makes an Ice Queen?

Neve Blackthorne, head of one of the most successful Studios in Hollywood, is the one to rule them all. Powerful, beautiful, and aloof, she’s ruthless, yet irresistible. Above all, she has an unquenchable survival instinct.

Surely a fleeting entanglement with one Audrey Avens, a bright, young, rising star in her company, won’t bring down the Wicked Queen of Tinseltown. Or will it?

Neve’s public persona has no chink in the untouchable armor, but when the lights go out and the cameras stop rolling, what becomes of an Ice Queen whose heart is ruled by love and fear?

🧊Rep: wlw, bisexual mc with PTSD & severe anxiety, femme lesbian li, lesbian & gay scs

🧊Spice level: ★★★★★

🧊Length: 395 pages

🧊Genre: Contemporary Romance

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R.A.D. is on a waitlist system and does not have open spots right now, so sign up for the waitlist below!

Angels are good and demons are bad, right? Sometimes it’s not always so black & white. We’re exploring the spicy side of the supernatural in the May 2024 R.A.D. with our theme...

😇 ANGELS & DEMONS 😈

Both books are getting the full Rainbow Crate special edition treatment:
🔥completely redesigned dust jackets
🔥art endpapers
🔥case art or foiling
🔥printed edges
🔥bound in author letters
🔥signed art bookplates

😇 Book 1 is the sensual Mercy by Ian Haramaki, the tale of a priest and the monster he rescues who turns out not to be a monster at all…

Spice level: ★★★★☆

Rep: mlm, gay neurodivergent mc w/ anxiety & C-PTSD, bisexual brown love interest w/ C-PTSD, Siberian scs, gay villain

Length: 363 pages

Genre: Adult Fantasy

😈 Book 2 is AITA? by Cassie Alexander, a sizzling sapphic romcom about a woman with the wrong man, who meets the right demon.

Rep: wlw, lesbian mc, bisexual mc
Spice level: 3/5 ★★★☆☆
Length: 215 pages
Genre: Adult Urban Fantasy

🔥R.A.D. is on a waitlist system and does not have open spots right now, so sign up for the waitlist below!

🔥 Simmering, slow burns oozing with sexual tension? Yes, please! Our February 2024 theme is Slow Burn 🔥

Book 1 is Phantom and Rook by Aelina Isaacs, a both cozy and spicy mlm fantasy between a witchboy and an immortal on a magical scavenger hunt.

Rep: mlm, BIPOC achillean mc w/depression & OCD, white achillean mc w/ADHD & chronic pain, queer, BIPOC, disabled, and neurodivergent scs
Spice level: 3/5

Book 2 is Pirates of Aletharia by Britney Jackson, a hot-and-cold wlw high-seas fantasy, with high-tension between a pirate captain and a dragon mage on the run!

Rep: wlw, white autistic lesbian mc w/PTSD & anxiety, Black lesbian li w/PTSD, lesbian, gay, & bi scs
Spice level: 3/5

Both books have the full special edition treatment - completely redesigned dust jackets, art endpapers, case art or foiling, printed edges, bound in author letters, and signed art bookplates!

R.A.D. is on a waitlist system and does not have open spots right now, so sign up for the waitlist below!

We know you’ve been waiting, so we’ll keep you waiting no longer! Here’s the November 2023 R.A.D. theme…

💙 BODY HEAT 💙

We’ve hand-selected TWO very special books to keep you hot and cozy in the winter months… if you know what we mean!

Both books are getting the full Rainbow Crate special edition treatment:
💙completely redesigned dust jackets
💙art endpapers
💙case art or foiling
💙printed edges
💙bound in author letters
💙signed art bookplates

Our first book is The Companion by E.E. Ottoman, a beautiful historical romance between two trans women and a trans man in the New York countryside. Madeline Slaughter is tired of New York City and the constant dredge. When her brother suggests she spends some time in the country, she is not expecting to find herself… AND a new home in Victor and Audrey.

Rep: wlwlm, trans woman mc, trans woman love interest, trans man love interest, polyamorous relationship
Spice level: 3.5/5
CW: period typical transphobia and homophobia, smoking, explicit sexual content, rape culture, sexual shame, issues of self worth

Our second book is Three Kings by Freydís Moon, a cozy story about testing the boundaries of a new relationship, shared intimacy, and the chance at a future in a group of three. Ethan Shaw and his husband, Captain Peter Vásquez, have made themselves a cozy life in their lighthouse. When Peter catches a wounded selkie in his net, Ethan must figure out how to care for Nico and whether Nico might be a new beginning for them both.

Rep: mlmlm, transmasc mc, Latine love interest, queer love interest, polyamorous relationship
Spice level: 4/5
CW: explicit sexual content, off-page transphobia, sex pollen, infertility, early-stage pregnancy, mention of death and resurrection