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Sue Bentley

For adult & crossover readers

Adult books

Sue’s fiction for adults is inspired by stories with a darker edge, complex plots, dangerous magic and characters forced to choose who they will become.

Cover of Flesh Endures by Sue C. Bentley

Adult fiction · Book 01

Flesh Endures

A tantalising tale of immortality, temptation and the terrible cost of desire.

Lord Karolan, endowed with an arcane knowledge of alchemy, knows immortality comes at a price. Any lover perishes at his touch. His only companion is his familiar, a greedy, wanton spirit that attached itself to him during his transformation, feasts on his fleshly desires and yearns to become human.

Karolan saves Garnetta from the plague sweeping through early gothic Europe by bestowing the dark gift upon her — but without her permission. A bond of desire develops between them, and a future seems possible, until Garnetta learns the shocking truth about what Karolan’s laboratory holds and what he has done to her.

Fleeing in horror, she falls into the hands of the Inquisition. Found guilty of heresy, she faces a fate even she may not survive. Dare she open her heart to Karolan now she knows what he is, while risking the familiar that is eager to inhabit her enticing female form?

Karolan is desperate to find the woman he has grown to love, knowing that only a leap of faith can lead him to her before time runs out.

Three dark, immersive worlds

Adult fiction · Book 02

We Other

Faeries. Changelings. A binding curse.

Jess Morgan’s life has always been chaotic. But when a startling new reality cannot be denied, her single mum’s alcoholism and violent boyfriend become the least of her worries.

She is linked to a world where humans — hot-bloods — are treated as disposable entertainment. Everything she believed about herself is a lie. Everything is about to change.

Cover of We Other by Sue Bentley

Adult fiction · Book 03

Second Skin

Two moons. Two hearts. Two souls.

Eighteen-year-old Lady Aledra Jewel-Wing is Drakkoni — one of a race of shape-shifting dragons who brutally conquered the Esran lands and fiercely protect their pure bloodlines.

Raised away from the Drakkoni court, Aledra is mentored to control the secondskin where her dragon form hides. When war breaks out she learns the truth about her mother, escapes imprisonment and meets Jubal, an Esran whose family were slaughtered by Drakkoni warriors.

Aledra conceals her heritage and, against all odds, they fall in love. Will their love turn to ashes if he finds out who she really is?

Cover of Second Skin by Sue Bentley

Anthology · Short fiction

The Third Corona Book of Horror Stories

An anthology of contemporary horror

A collection of contemporary horror stories featuring work by Sue Bentley alongside other writers of dark fiction. Sue’s story, Old Gods, begins on page 45.

Cover of The Third Corona Book of Horror Stories

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Sue is available for literary festivals, school visits, meet-and-greet and book-signing events, and book-group visits.

For reader messages, press, rights, festival and event enquiries, send Sue a note below or email info@suebentley.co.uk.