R.A.D. May 2025 theme is…

✨ Captive Hearts✨

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• ✨ 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.