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July 2025: 🏴☠️ HOIST THE COLORS 🏴☠️
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We’re 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
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🏴☠️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 the modern day.
🏴☠️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, edited by Rachel Skelton (@TheReadingSkeleton)!
🏳️🌈 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 never-before-released 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
🏳️🌈 SUMMARY:The warmth of the sun on your skin. The scent of freshly cut grass. Chilled, juicy watermelon.
What does summer mean to you? Whether it’s road trips with friends, the twinkle of the stars at night, or sandy sapphire beaches, come peek into the lives of queer characters and see what summer means to them.
It’s a Queer, Queer Summer features twelve never-before-published stories by authors from a diverse array of identities and backgrounds. We hope you enjoy it as much as we have loved putting it together ♡
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🏳️⚧️ BOOK 2 for June is Veil us in Gold by Shepard DiStasio!
🏳️⚧️ 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
🏳️⚧️ SUMMARY:Find a weapon lost to myth, and Drake can save the world.
Find a creature lost to war, and they can save themself.
Drake Elýnus was never supposed to be in Tārāmen. They were never supposed to be working for Tārāmen’s royal family. They were never supposed to do the things they’ve done. But Drake hasn’t stood a chance since the day their home was burned to the ground, the boy they loved was executed in front of them, and wayward magic cast them into a life of lonely immortality far from anything they’d ever known. All they have is revenge.
But when the culmination of their efforts backfires into a death sentence, their only hope is to make a deal with the very queen they tried to ruin.
The world around Drake is unraveling. Whispers of ancient monsters bubble beneath the surface. Fights escalate on the borders of a country that has not been its own in fifty years. Treaties are no longer worth any more than the blood they were written in. And a mysterious general they all call the ‘White Rose’ is apparently the face of it all.
With the gilded gold of society finally peeling, Drake might have a chance to escape—but only if they confront who they were truly supposed to be.
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May 2025: 🌸 SOULMATES 🌸
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Love is in the air this season, and we’re bringing you romance, drama, adventure, and...
The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our May 2025 theme is…
🌸 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?
🌸 SUMMARY: Lifetime after lifetime, Lost and found again, Until the cycle was broken...
As an herbalist, Heriath lives a life devoted to others. A task that has become increasingly difficult with the loss of the Elysir, a magical bloom that's healing properties have kept the people of Vyelan strong and healthy for hundreds of years. She does her best to make up for the loss, but when her sister's illness is discovered to be fatal she makes it her mission to find the healing blossom.
With the help of a friend and a lucky encounter with the heiress of a powerful company in Vyelan, she finds herself on a journey to return the Elysir to its former glory. To save her sister's life she must reunite the souls of an ancient mystic and his wife which proves to be an easy task at first. That is until she finds herself drawn to one of the bonded pair.
The once simple mission twists into a struggle between head and heart as she's pulled between her love for her sister and her newfound feelings. As physical and emotional challenges are thrown her way, Heriath must learn to trust herself and decide if being selfish is the right choice.
🌸 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.
🌸 SUMMARY: He drew a thousand faces, but none of them were his…
His whole life, the one thing Dorian wanted more than anything else, was to know who his soulmate was. But while he can find everyone else’s soulmate, he can’t do the same for himself.
Resigned to a life of solitude, he spends his days giving people the key to their happiness, borrowing their joy and basking in the beauty of their love. It’s enough…
Until he meets Hayden.
Hayden, who is everything Dorian had ever dreamed of.
Hayden, who cares for Dorian the same way Dorian cares for him.
Hayden, who doesn’t believe in soulmates.
🌸 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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Get ready for the ride of your life, because Rainbow Crate is taking you on an adventure this April with our new theme:
🏰 ON MY WAY TO THE CASTLE 🏰
🌈 Buckle up and strap in!-
🏴☠️ 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!
🏴☠️ SUMMARY: In a world of arrogant nobles, Georgina will be hanged if anyone discovers she is a spy. When the wicked prince proposes marriage, Georgina must accept. Refusing would expose the secrets she has delivered to a hidden resistance and forfeit her life. With her wedding day looming ever closer, salvation comes from an unlikely source.
Pirate Captain Cinder is a terror on the open sea, striking fear into hearts wherever she sails. Now she has a new target. The vulnerable Princess Georgina should be an easy mark in Cinder’s kidnapping plot. But the legend of Captain Cinder is more intertwined with Georgina’s own history than either of them expect.
Treacherous storms. A mysterious pirate king. The prince’s unrelenting pursuit. Georgina and Cinder can only escape by following the uncharted course of their hearts. But just as a future together is within their grasp, Cinder’s past threatens to drag them both to the deep.
🏴☠️ 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!
🐉 SUMMARY:
At age eighteen, when they become marriageable, all royal children in the Thousand Kingdoms must either go questing to rescue another royal or be hidden away to await rescue themselves. Some go the traditional route of princes rescuing princesses, but not all princes want to be rescuers…and some would rather rescue other princes.Then there’s Prince Gerald, who has no interest in getting married at all. When he refuses to choose a role as either rescuer or rescuee, his royal parents choose for him and have him magicked away to a distant tower to await a spouse.
Gerald, however, is having none of it. He recruits his guardian dragon and a would-be rescuer and soon the trio is dashing to all corners of the united kingdoms on a quest to overturn the entire system.
🐉 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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🌈 Whether the new year brings new pursuits or second chances, we’ve got your literary needs covered here at Rainbow Crate!
😈 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, dark twist to completely change your world!
😈 SUMMARY:
Meet a once-renowned human warrior, trapped in an abandoned city with a demon who hates her. A demon who woke her from a fifty-year magical slumber specifically for the sake of tormenting her.
The demon’s Vesper. She and Char go a long, long way back. They used to be partners on the battlefield. National heroes. An unbeatable team bonded by magic. That bond was supposed to last for the rest of their lives.
Now Char’s memory is full of holes. The sealed city is full of hostile magical beasts. And Vesper, with her sharp teeth and unpredictable moods, is the most vicious of them all. As an ageless demon, she’s fully prepared to keep holding Char captive forever.
Char struggles to unravel the mytery of why they've ended up pitted against each other, locked in a private war that seems certain to end with one or both of them dead. Does Vesper’s senseless cruelty stem from simple demonic bloodlust? From years of suppressed loathing? What else could have driven her past the breaking point—compelled her to suddenly snap and betray her own bondmate?
To uncover the truth, Char will have to face her demon as she would any other deadly as an enemy of humanity, the most formidable and vindictive foe she's ever encountered.
😈 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 for your new reading addiction!
😈 SUMMARY:
Demon King Jurao returns from his successful thirty-year Union Campaign and discovers something amiss - the castle gardens have a secret caretaker.
Using his authority over the sentient plants, he discovers the gardener is... a human! But after hearing the man out, Jurao decides to appoint Braelin as the official Royal Gardener for all his hard work.
Now he just needs to figure out why everyone seems to believe he is romantically interested in the human...
😈 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!
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📷 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 our longtime asexual favorite, 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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A new year, a new you – and we have got two huge fan favorites for you!
The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our January 2025 theme is…
✒️ CREATIVE PURSUITS! 🪼
Read on to learn more!
🌈 Whether the new year brings new pursuits or second chances, we’ve got your literary needs covered here at Rainbow Crate! Both of our books are adult books this month, romances taking place in different creative fields!
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✒️ 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
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Theme announcements are uploaded on the 1st of each month prior!
Next announcement: the July 2025 theme reveal on June 1st! See you then!
Follow our Instagram and turn on Notifications to make sure you don't miss out on announcements! Check out all of our previous themes in our Past Theme Gallery.