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Cover art for Close Embrace by Kenzie Lexington: a couple in a tango embrace, she in a red dressComing soonClose EmbraceA Novel · Kenzie Lexington

Coming soon · A novel by the author of the After Lights Out series

Close Embrace


Three minutes in a stranger’s arms on a tango floor, and Helen realizes no one has really held her in years.

Helen has been good her whole life. She is a budget analyst in San Francisco, polite in public, and very tired of making herself smaller. A podcast about keeping only what you use gets her to clear out a closet. Then it gets her to sign up for beginner tango.

Ana, a familiar face from the After Lights Out series, becomes her friend and guide. Helen ends a long, kind relationship the honest way, keeps three boxes, and starts saying yes, out loud, across a year of festivals.

A full-length erotic novel from the author of the After Lights Out series. It is graphic. Consent is on the page. She is into it.

Coming soon on Amazon

A standalone novel. Release date and price to be announced.
18+. All characters are consenting adults. No blood relatives. This is fiction.

An empty dance floor at night: a red dress over a folding chair, a man’s jacket on its back, and a pair of tango heels

Close Embrace · Coming soon

A standalone novel by the author of the After Lights Out series.