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Dark romance? ✅ Alien heat? 🛸 Coins? ❌
Radish is closing. We’ve got new exclusives, no wait traps, and zero coins.

So… Radish is shutting down at the end of this year.
We’re genuinely sorry to see it go—because this hurts both readers and authors. Romance is a $6.8B market. There’s more than enough room for all of us.
We know how much time, love, and energy so many of you poured into your Radish stories and communities. So this isn’t a pitch—just a quiet heads-up:
We’ve been building something different.
No coins. No wait traps.
Serials and full-length books—exclusive or not, all spice levels welcome.
Every story is reviewed by a real person.
Authors know who’s reading—and what’s working.
And we’re building a community that pulls everyone up.
Radish readers, we got you.
Take a screenshot of your account—even if it’s just 1 coin—and send it to [email protected]. We’ll send you a promo code for a free story. That’s it.
Radish authors, we got you too.
Refer your fellow authors and get 10% of the royalties they earn (from our share, not theirs) for the first year. Just head to Settings on theoreads.com (upper right corner of your screen) to find and copy your referral code.
If you're looking for your next platform—or just curious—I’d love to talk. No pressure.
With love,
Parneet
Co-founder, Theo Reads
Playing House By Mira Hartley (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Dark Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Couple) He comes for her in the dead of night—silent, deliberate, in control. She wakes to chains, cold steel, and a stranger’s gaze. He says he’ll leave… if her body tells him to. Tonight, the rules aren’t hers. Tonight, consent has teeth. |
New book by the author of The Commander! Finding Her Heart By Isoe Dark (🌶️🌶️🌶️ Alpha, Fated Mate, Aliens & Monsters) In Finding Her Luck, she was claimed as “redress” by the leader of brutish Orki warriors. In this sequel, she is finally reunited as a war bride with the indomitable Orki warrior. |
The Package By Laila Bell (🌶️🌶️🌶️ Enemies to Lovers, Comedy) When Monroe’s new toy ends up on the wrong porch, she just wants to grab it and disappear—preferably before anyone realizes what it is. But instead of her sweet, nerdy neighbor, it’s his sinfully hot, infuriatingly smug brother who opens the door in nothing but a towel… and a wicked grin. |
When the Sheets Talk By Firebird First Place winner, Readers’ Favorite 5-Star honoree, Dr. J | Donna Jennings, Ph.D (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Erotic Fantasy, Couple, Bisexual) A provocative, heart-pounding erotic romance exploring consensual non-monogamy, queer fluidity, and sexual awakening. Beth and Rafe dive into a world of shared fantasies, unexpected encounters, and uninhibited pleasure with an introduction to a club that specializes in saying yes to desire. |
Locked Out, Nude, and on Cam By Quinn Blueheart (🌶️🌶️🌶️ Forced Proximity) When life gives this exhibitionist rocker lemons, she squeezes them into lemonade! Locked out naked, Miss Vivienne, a rockstar and cam girl, turns a mishap into a lucrative live show, pushing her boundaries with neighbors watching and an older friend coming to the rescue. As time runs out and nature calls, she must decide how far she'll go for her audience and her own desires. |
Series (Complete + Ongoing)
We Will Run Away Together, Just the Two of Us By Leakypipe (🌶️ Hurt/Comfort, Dark Romance) Crippled in body, perhaps, yet my spirit remains most incorrigibly alive. I wield my cane with venom and elegance. Blind in one eye, indeed, though one is more than sufficient to behold the pitiful theatre of nobility and its exquisite cruelty. I am maimed but make no mistake, I shall drag myself through fire if it means protecting the one I love most. |
Claiming the Nanny By G.G. Wylde (🌶️🌶️🌶️ 🌶️ Enemies to Lovers, Dark Romance) They hired her to watch the kids. But they couldn’t stop watching her. Curves for days, lips made for trouble—and a whole lot more than either of them bargained for. Now that the nanny’s off-duty, playtime’s just getting started. |
Viridessa By Amia Phill (🌶️🌶️🌶️ 🌶️ Aliens & Monsters, Sci-Fi) Dr. Aris Nereo expected a routine mission. What she got was a crash landing on a planet that pulses with predatory vines, intoxicating blooms, and dangerous desire. Cut off from the Accord and stalked by the wild, her only hope is Zyio—a mesmerizing, silent stranger whose touch is anything but safe. |
Cat Games By Gora Shade (🌶️🌶️🌶️ 🌶️ Enemies to Lovers, Dark Romance) Daren is a lazy, mean, cheat. His roommate "Mouse" has had enough, and plans to move out after meeting Rayne, a bombshell creative, and the first woman Mouse has ever been attracted to. The day of the big move, Rayne steps in to assist, but not before teaching Mouse that Daren's actions have consequences. Using household tools and guided by Rayne, Mouse steps into revenge mode, leaving Daren fulfilled, but humiliated, and our narrator aching for Rayne's touch and approval. |
The Throat By Eskay Kabba (🌶️🌶️🌶️ 🌶️ Casual Hookup, New Adult & College, Gay) Aaron, a college student, leads a double life as a sex worker servicing older men. One evening, he is called to perform at a fraternity initiation. At the frat house, he finds himself in a tense situation with his former friends. During the initiation, Aaron performs oral sex on a blindfolded pledge, Jeremy, who believes he is being serviced by a woman. |