The Soft Open: Book One of the Ember & Wax Series, Phoenix Cole

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The Soft Open
Book One of the Ember & Wax Series
Paperback – December 29, 2025
by Phoenix Cole

The Soft Open is a sensual, slow-burn WLW romance set in the sultry glow of New Orleans nightlife, where music, desire, and buried truths collide.

At Ember & Wax, the city’s newest underground lounge, cocktails flow, secrets slip, and attraction lingers in the air like smoke. Marina Clairmond runs the club with velvet-wrapped precision, keeping her family’s expectations, her business, and her heart under tight control. She does not let herself want what she cannot manage.

Then Logan Carter steps behind the DJ booth.

Fearless, magnetic, and dangerously perceptive, Logan’s music and presence crack open something Marina has spent years carefully hiding. What begins as a quiet spark becomes a slow-burn pull, drawing them together with an intensity neither of them can deny. Logan sees Marina without masks or pretense, and that kind of intimacy is as terrifying as it is intoxicating.

In a city built on heat and hidden lives, Marina must choose between the safety of silence and the risk of something real. Love, after all, is the boldest opening of all.

The first book in the Ember & Wax series, The Soft Open launches seven interconnected lesbian romances where passion ignites, secrets rise, and love plays on repeat.