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October 2025: 🫦 HELP, MY ROOMMATE'S HOT! 🔥
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our October 2025 theme is…
🫦 HELP! MY ROOMMATE’S HOT! 🔥
🫦 BOOK 1 for October is Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao! Make Room for Love is a sweet, tender and sexy romance following two women who unexpectedly become roommates. Mira and Isabel have their differences, but as they learn about each other, undiscovered passions are ignited.
🔥 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Hardcover edition!
- New dust jacket with pale gold foiling
- Illustrated hardcase with dark purple foiling
- Character & environmental art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
🔥 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Adult Romance
REP: wlw, Indian American and Jewish bi trans woman mc, Chinese American butch lesbian mc, Asian American queer and trans scs
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 314 pgs
🔥SYNOPSIS: Starting over is hard. Falling for her gorgeous butch roommate might make it impossible.
When a tall, stunning butch protects Mira from her ex-boyfriend at the club—and offers her a safe place to stay—Mira should be relieved. Not flustered. She’s not into women. Yet this tough electrician with curves for days makes Mira’s heart race like never before.
But Isabel, wounded by grief, forces Mira to keep her distance. Until Mira’s desperate to win a union election at work—and only Isabel has the experience to teach her how.
Soon they’re lingering over dinner, teasing each other as the apartment heats up. And Isabel is making her coffee every morning, hanging her shelves, giving her smoldering looks before bed…But Mira can’t afford temptation. Not after living with her nightmare ex. No matter how well Isabel takes care of her…or how much Isabel needs healing, too.
She can’t risk her freedom—or her heart.
🫦 BOOK 2 for October is And They Were Roommates by Page Powars! And They Were Roommates follows Charlie, the new scholarship student at Valentine Academy for boys. Between the high pressure environment of new classes, and maintaining a high enough GPA to keep his scholarship, Charlie is doing his best. To make matters worse, Charlie’s unexpected roommate has enlisted his help in writing love letters for the student body. Surely with romance in the air, Charlie won’t fall in love.
🔥 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with gold & red foiling & spot gloss
- Illustrated case with gold foiling & iridescent gloss
- Character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Bonus Chapter & Playlist
🔥 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: YA Romance
REP: mlm, transgender mc, bisexual li, gay sc
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 317 pgs
🔥SYNOPSIS: Romance is the last thing on Charlie’s mind.
On his first day at Valentine Academy for Boys, Charlie’s carefully crafted plan to hide his identity as the school’s only trans student is set in motion. Only to be immediately destroyed. Charlie has been assigned the worst roommate in the world (possibly the universe): Jasper Grimes, the boy who broke Charlie’s heart the year before he transitioned.
Except, Jasper doesn’t recognize Charlie.
Who knows how long until Jasper realizes the truth? Charlie has one shot at freedom and a dorm room all to himself, but only if he helps Jasper write love letters on behalf of their fellow students first. No problem. Charlie can help Jasper with some silly letters.
Long nights spent discussing deep romantic feelings with Jasper? Surely, no unintended consequences will arise…
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September 2025: ✨ WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS ✨
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our September 2025 theme is…
✨ WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS ✨✨ BOOK 1 for September is House of Frank by Kay Synclaire, a warm and hopeful story of a lonely witch consumed by grief who discovers a whimsical cast of characters in a magical arboretum — and the healing power of found family.
✨ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - New dust jacket with purple foil, spot gloss & glow in the dark printing
- Illustrated hardcase with gold foiling & glow in the dark printing
- GORGEOUS landscape art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Short Story and Pronunciation Guide
✨ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Cozy Fantasy
REP: wlw, Black lesbian mc, Black pansexual li, gay man sc, trans woman sc, asexual sc, mainly queer cast
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 341 pgs
✨ BOOK 2 for September is To Hive & to Hold by Amy Crook, a sweet and tender tale of an apothecarist with magic bees and the magical tattooist who comes to visit and falls deeply for him.
✨ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- Holographic gold, silver, and green foiling, as well as holographic gloss
- Illustrated case with holographic gold and tan foiling
- Art endpapers by the author with iridescent gloss (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Color accents in the interior
- Bonus short story
✨ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Fantasy
REP: mlnb, gay male mc, nonbinary li, lesbian sc, Black sc, nonbinary, polyamorous and queer cast
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 420 pgs
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August 2025: 👻 COZY HORROR 🔪
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our August 2025 theme is…
👻 COZY HORROR 🔪
👻 BOOK 1 for August is Someone You can Build a Nest in by John Wiswell! A monster in search of someone to lay her eggs finds more than she bargained for when a human cares for her after an encounter with monster hunters. From the perspective of the monster, this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance explores what happens when you make the fatal mistake of falling in love.
👻 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with iridescent gloss
- Illustrated hardcase with silver foiling
- GORGEOUS character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
👻 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Macabre Fairytale
REP: wlw asexual relationship, asexual main character experiencing ace awakening, asexual love interest, bisexual secondary character, minor gay and lesbian characters, minor nonbinary characters, queernormative worldbuilding, disability representation including: deafness, language aversion, lack of sense of smell, chronic pain, amputees, congenital lack of limbs, lack of internal bones, neurodivergence, PTSD, mobility aids
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 382 pgs
🔪 BOOK 2 for August is How to Survive this Fairytale by S.M. Hallow! Twining together a dark fairytale retelling with mental health and disability representation plus queer normative world-building splashed with a cozy horror game, How to Survive This Fairytale is rewriting Happily Ever Afters.🔪 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with red foil + spot gloss
- Illustrated case with spot gloss
- GORGEOUS character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Bound-in Q&A with the author
🔪 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Fairytale Horror Romance
REP: mlm, Achillean main character with PTSD, depression, and eating disorders, Achillean love interest with a physical disability, Physically disabled secondary character
SPICE: ★☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 292 pgs
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July 2025: 🏴☠️ HOIST THE COLORS 🏴☠️
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our July 2025 theme is…
🏴☠️ HOIST THE COLORS 🏴☠️
🏴☠️BOOK 1 for July is Fragments of a Fallen Star by Viano Oniomoh! Fragments of a Fallen Star is a whimsical and heartwarming New Adult fantasy adventure romance about grief, healing, and falling in love.🏴☠️OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with gold and black foiling & spot gloss
- Illustrated hard case with gold foil
- GORGEOUS Character art endpaper
- Printed edges
- Bonus glossary
🏴☠️BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Fantasy Romance
REP: Black cisgender lesbian FMC, Black cisgender demisexual FLI, Aroace side character, Trans and nonbinary side characters, all queer and POC main cast
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 398 pgs
🏴☠️BOOK 2 for July is Peter Darling by S.A. Chant! Peter Darling is a bold and beautifully done, touching queer retelling of Peter Pan set in a 1900s England!
🏴☠️OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with gold foiling & pearl gloss
- Illustrated case with black foiling
- Beautiful art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Short story
🏴☠️BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Adult Urban Fantasy
REP: Queer trans male main character, Queer physically disabled cis male love interest, Queer cis male secondary character
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 216 pgs
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June 2025: 🏳️🌈 WE’RE HERE! WE’RE QUEER! GET USED TO IT! 🏳️⚧️
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our June 2025 theme is…
🏳️🌈 WE’RE HERE! WE’RE QUEER! GET USED TO IT! 🏳️⚧️
We aren’t going anywhere! We are not going to let anyone silence our queer voices! Now more than ever, it’s important to read and engage with queer books, and show the world that queer people have always, and will always exist! This June marks the beginning of our 6th year in operation! Happy Birthday to us!
That said, come celebrate with our second original anthology: It’s A Queer, Queer Summer, curated by Rainbow Crate and edited by Rachel Skelton!
🏳️🌈 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - A gorgeous dust jacket with pink and blue foiling (it matches the first anthology)
- Illustrated hard case with orange foil
- Stunning custom art endpapers (slightly different front and back)
- Printed edges
🏳️🌈 12 ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES BY:Ashley Davis
Simon Doyle
Eden Emory
S.E. Gallant
M.A. Grant
Deanna Grey
River Hale
Craig Montgomery
Rosiee Thor
Addie Tsai
Ali Williams
T.N. Wren
🏳️🌈 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: A little of everything!
REP: A huge variety! Each story has individual rep and CWs listed at the start of the tale
LENGTH: 306 pgs
🏳️⚧️ BOOK 2 for June is Veil us in Gold by Shepard DiStasio! The first book of the Sins of the Divine series explores what it means to be good, the secrets people will do anything to keep hidden, and the monsters that not prowl not only in shadows, but inside hearts as well.
🏳️⚧️ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with Gold Foil, Silver Foil, and spot gloss
- Foiled hardcase heavily inspired/recreated from original cover art with Gold Foil, Silver Foil, and spot gloss
- Beautiful art endpapers (same front/back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: sneak peek of book 2!
🏳️⚧️ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Dark Fantasy
REP: nblm, t4t, Asexual, nonbinary, neurodivergent and chronically ill mc, BIPOC main cast, autism, ADHD, PTSD, addiction, fat scs, various LGBTQIA+ relationships
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 524 pgs
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May 2025: 🌸 SOULMATES 🌸
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our May 2025 theme is…
🌸 SOULMATES 🌸Love is in the air this season, and we’re bringing you romance, drama, adventure, and Soulmates!!
🌸 BOOK 1 for May is Where the River Meets the Soul by S. Nicole! Where the River Meets the Soul is a cozy fantasy romance about an herbalist who decides she must revive her land's magic in order to save her sister from her terminal illness. On her quest, she finds herself falling for one of the soulmates whose bond powers the magic. What will her heart tell her to do?
🌸 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with silver foiling & spot gloss
- OG cover on the hard case with pale blue & silver foiling
- GORGEOUS Character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
🌸 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Fantasy Romance
REP: Black Asexual Panromantic fmc, Black genderfluid love interest, Afro-Mexican sc, Black lesbian scs
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 390 pgs
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🌸 BOOK 2 for May is Faces by A.M. Rose! Faces is a romantic and heartbreaking story about an artist who can draw the face of someone’s actual soulmate. He dreams of meeting his own soulmate too, but there is just one catch: he is blind, so how can he draw someone he will never see? One day, he has a meet cute in a coffee shop and gets his hopes up, only to discover that naturally, he’s stumbled into a date with the one guy in the world who never wants to meet his soulmate.
🌸 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with gold foiling & pearl gloss
- Illustrated case with black foiling
- Beautiful art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Short stories
🌸 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Adult Contemporary
REP: mm, blind gay cis male mc, gay cis male mc, female sc with Down Syndrome
SPICE: ★☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 200 pgs
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April 2025: 🏰 ON MY WAY TO THE CASTLE 🏰
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal our April 2025 theme is...
🏰 ON MY WAY TO THE CASTLE 🏰Buckle up and strap in for the ride of your life!
🏴☠️ BOOK 1 for April is one we’ve been waiting for for a while. One whose adventure-filled tale with a major cliffhanger has been requested many a time: Uncharted by Alli Temple!
🏴☠️ RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- Pale gold and copper foil on the dust jacket
- Illustrated hard case with gold & holographic silver foil
- Illustrated character art endpapers (different front and back)
- Printed edges
- Annotations by the author!
🏴☠️ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Adult Fantasy Romance
REP: wlw, cis lesbian mcs, nonbinary sc
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 358 pgs
🐉 BOOK 2 for April is another we’ve been holding onto, a staff favorite - the genre-bending and incredibly sweet Royal Rescue by A. Alex Logan!
🐉 RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- Embossing and gold foil foil on the dust jacket
- Illustrated hard case in gold foil
- Illustrated character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Exclusive Epilogue!
🐉 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Adult Fantasy
REP: mlm qpr, aroace mmc w/anxiety, achillean & sapphic scs, nb scs, queernormative world, mobility aids
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 392 pgs
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March 2025: 😈 I KISSED A DEMON & I LIKED IT 😈
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our March 2025 theme is…
😈 I KISSED A DEMON & I LIKED IT 😈
😈 BOOK 1 for March is a staff favorite we have been salivating over forever, something we have waited all too long to introduce you to, The First & Last Demon by Hiyodori! Get ready for this post-apocalyptic fantasy with a dark twist to completely change your world!
😈 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with orange foiling & iridescent gloss
- OG cover on the hard case with lt blue foiling
- GORGEOUS Character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Bound-in Glossary
😈 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Adult Fantasy Romance
REP: wlw, lesbian mcs and scs, queernorm world
SPICE: ★☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 366 pgs
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😈 BOOK 2 for March is an extra special collection of books 1-3 in The Demon King’s Gardener series by Rori Thornton! When we say this aroace meeting of hearts between a demon king and his human gardener hikes up the feels, we mean it! Get ready to laugh, to cry and to feel some queer joy!
😈 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with orange foiling & iridescent gloss
- Art and foiled hardcase with royal blue and forest green foil
- Beautiful art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: extensive character profiles with art, a bound-in glossary and more!
😈 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Adult Fantasy
REP: mlm, aroace autistic mc, aroace auDHD li, high-masking autistic gay aro sc, cast of queer, disabled, and/or trans scs
SPICE: ★☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 428 pgs
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February 2025: 📷 CHAPTER BY CHAPTER 📚
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our February 2025 theme is…
📷 CHAPTER BY CHAPTER 📚
🌈 Whether the new year brings new pursuits or second chances, we’ve got your literary needs covered at Rainbow Crate! Both of our books are adult romances this month, and they take place in and around our favorite places – libraries!
📷 BOOK 1 for February is a deeply romantic story that brings childhood best friends back together after a hometown hardship, Of Love & Libraries by Brenna Bailey! We fell head over heels for this golden years second-chance romance. This wholesome story might just make you weep!
📷 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with iridescent foiling & spot gloss!
- New Illustrated hardcase with gloss accents!
- Art endpapers
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: new short story celebrating birthdays and bookcubs!
📷 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Small Town Romance
REP: wlw, lesbian main characters, bisexual side character, lesbian side characters, nonbinary side character, trans male side character
SPICE: ★☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 247 pgs
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📚 BOOK 2 for February is the asexual classic, Upside Down by N.R. Walker! This novel is a heartfelt and funny story featuring two ace main characters. Jordan and Hennessey get to know one another through short bus trips and fast trivia-like questions while you fall head over heels for them!
📚 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with dark grey & grape foils and spot gloss!
- New illustrated hardcase with pale gold & purple foils!
- Art endpapers
- Printed edges
📚 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
REP: mlm, white gay ace questioning male MC with anxiety, white gay asexual male MC, white lesbian female side character, white bisexual male side character involved in a poly triad, side characters part of an aromantic and asexual support group.
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 248 pgs
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January 2025: ✒️ CREATIVE PURSUITS 🪼
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our January 2025 theme is…
✒️ CREATIVE PURSUITS! 🪼
🌈 Whether the new year brings new pursuits or second chances, we’ve got your literary needs covered here at Rainbow Crate! A new year, a new you – and we have got two huge fan favorites for you!
✒️ BOOK 1 for January is a one we have been raving about, a swoon-worthy rivals-to-lovers romance taking place in the world of comics, Outdrawn by Deanna Grey! From the moment we turned the first page, we were hooked! Get ready to follow Noah and Sage, two longtime rival comic creators who just happen to hate each other, but are forced to work together on a new project. There is so much depth and so many emotions in this book, we know you’re going to fall head over heels for it like we did!✒️ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
- A beautiful new dust jacket with pink glitter and iridescent foiling
- The gorgeous original cover on the hard case with pearlescent accents
- Gorgeous art endpapers
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: A new short story picking up after the book ends!
✒️ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Adult rivals-to-lovers romance
REP: Black bisexual mc, Black lesbian mc with carpal tunnel syndrome, Gay scs
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
CW: Brief discussions of biphobia and lesbophobia, Parent struggling with alcoholism, Parent struggling with disability due to car accident, Parentification, Brief mention of suicidal ideation, Sexually explicit scenes, Discussion of a motorcycle accident, Description of wounds
LENGTH: 321 pgs
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🪼 BOOK 2 for January is the deeply romantic yet heart-wrenching You & I, Rewritten by Chip Pons! Will and Graham’s journey into love is going to make you cry, cry, CRY! Their love story unfolds surrounded by the world of publishing, and before you know it, you’re going to be swept up in their fluffy romance, personal lives, and the big twist at the end!
🪼 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
- A beautiful new dust jacket with iridescent silver foiling and embossing
- The gorgeous original cover on the hard case with iridescent foiling
- Gorgeous art endpapers
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: A new short story picking up two years after the end of the novel
🪼 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Adult contemporary romance
REP: mlm, gay mc, gay Spanish li, Spanish sc, Asian-American sc
SPICE: ★☆☆☆☆
CW: alcoholism, death of a parent, panic attacks, parental abandonment, grief, PTSD, physical abuse, military sexual trauma
LENGTH: 297 pgs
🌈 Limited subs are open now! Start a subscription for yourself or a loved one at the link below to make 2025 a year full of queer!
Theme announcements are uploaded on the 1st of each month prior!
Next announcement: the July 2025 theme reveal on June 1st! See you then!
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