🏴☠️ BENEATH THE WAVES 🧜

Love stronger than the tide, scales shining with iridescence - let the sea set you free as you dive into these tales rife with merfolk, adventure and romance!

The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our October 2026 theme is…

🏴☠️ BOOK 1 for October is The Siren’s Kiss by Leslie Vedder! Dead Shot Rayleigh has been bound to Red-Handed Roger’s cursed shop for three years. Determined to win her freedom, she hatches a plan to steal Roger’s heart from the Sea Witch. But when Maren, a fiery mermaid, steals the key she needs, Rayleigh has a choice: give up or go after Maren.

🏴☠️ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition
- New dust jacket with iridescent gloss and spot gloss
- Illustrated hardcase with copper and silver foil and iridescent gloss!
- Art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed Edges
- Bonus Content: Bonus Chapter

🏴☠️ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Fantasy - Fairytale Retelling
REP: wlw, sapphic mcs, achillean sc, bisexual scs, sapphic scs, queer-normative fantasy world
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 291 pgs

🧜 BOOK 2 for October is Storm & Sea by Tereza Kane! Atreus has enjoyed a quiet life in Baia Vita blending in as one of the human inhabitants. But when a fellow Mer washes ashore, Nyel’s arrival changes everything. Atreus must decide whether to let Nyel in despite their prejudices setting them at odds. Baia Vita hangs in the balance as a criminal family is poised to starve the bay.

🧜 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition
- New dust jacket with gold foil and iridescent gloss
- Illustrated hardcase with gold foil and iridescent gloss
- Art endpapers (different front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Full Color Art Gallery

🧜 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Fantasy
REP: mlm, gay mcs, pansexual mc, bisexual mc, asexual sc; mental health rep: disability, trauma survivor, anxious attachment, intrusive thoughts, abandonment issues
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 499 pgs