May 2025

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