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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.
August 2024: Thawing the Ice
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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!
May 2024: Angels & Demons
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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!
February 2024: Slow Burn
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🔥 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!
November 2023: Body Heat
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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 worthOur 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
