A new gothic dark fantasy

Flesh Endures

Immortality comes at a price. In plague-stricken medieval Europe, an alchemist who cannot touch a human lover saves a brutalised young woman with a dark gift she never asked for.

Published 28 October 2026 · Troubador Publishing

Three-dimensional paperback edition of Flesh Endures by Sue C. Bentley

Meet the author

Stories from the shadowed edge

Sue Bentley is the bestselling author of more than 80 books for children and adults. Her work has been translated into over 20 languages and sold worldwide.

Drawn to gothic fiction, damaged characters and the possibility of redemption, Sue is also a mixed-media artist with a deep love of the natural world.

Podcast interview

Local Legends #71: Sue Bentley

In this episode of Three Ravens, Sue talks about a writing career spanning more than 80 books, Northamptonshire folklore and heritage, fairy tales, and the gothic fiction that inspires her work.

The collection

Books for adults and children

Explore dark fantasy and adult fiction, or step into the sparkling adventures that have introduced generations of younger readers to Flame, Storm, Comet and Arrow.

Reviews for Flesh Endures

The sex appeal of the vampire has been a given for some time, but it’s rare to find the archetype handled as seductively. A marvellously imaginative, lushly sensual piece of work.
Sally-Anne Rogers
Flesh Endures is a gritty tale, its spiked tendrils pushing from the coffin of the vampire tradition. By turns moving, sensual and horrific. This is not a book for the faint-hearted.
Tina Rath
Flesh Endures is a tantalising dark fantasy, with a gothic background and a hero who is deadlier than Dracula. There’s magic, alchemy, temptation and a rather surprising development.
Velvet Vampyre
An exotic tale guaranteed not to disappoint.
Daily Mail
A high tingle factor.
Daily Star
Writer of Flesh Endures Sue C. Bentley puts the secrets of her success down to being well-balanced, having a sponge-like capacity for storing useless information, and possessing a joyously perverted imagination.
Woman’s Journal
We belong together. Never forget it.
Looking Good Magazine · Extract from Flesh Endures