The Book
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.
- Publisher
- Troubador Publishing
- Publication date
- 28 October 2026
- ISBN
- 9781806346622
- Format
- Paperback
- Extent
- 368 pages
- RRP
- £9.99
Selected review quotes
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.
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.
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.
