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 Monsterby 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.