The
Flesh Endures
by Cleo Cordell
(Modern Erotic Classics)
If his beauty was of the Devil, and this
an enchantment, she did not care. . .
Lord Karolan Rakka is no stranger to
death: sensual, mysterious and endowed with an arcane knowledge of alchemy, he
has achieved immortality. Deeply lonely and tormented by the Fetch - the dark
and wanton spirit who feasts on his fleshly desires - Karolan endeavours to
resist the brief solace of sexual pleasure . . . Instead he longs for a kindred
soul. And when he finds her in the ravishing form of Garnetta - a young woman,
both innocent and lost - Karolan wastes no time in making her his own. But when
Garnetta discovers the shocking truth about their overwhelming bond of desire,
she flees Lord Rakka - and finds herself in mortal peril. Only Karolan can save
her. Will he make a leap of faith for the woman he has grown to love . . .
before time runs out? The Flesh Endures is a breathless tale of faith and love,
and the bonds of desire from which there is no escape.
~ * ~
Excerpt:
It was gloomy
inside the low room, the air thick with the oily smoke from rush tapers. The
lavender and sweet woodruff that strewed the beaten earth floor had long since
wilted and failed to mask the smells of stale sweat and unwashed clothes.
At the back of
the room, in an area of deepest shadow, Lord Karolan Rakka lay on a pile of
tawdry cushions. He watched his companion caressing the two young women, his
perceptions blurred by the poppy drug coursing through his veins. The three
naked bodies were shiny with sweat and the smells of sex and exertion clotted his
nostrils. He wondered, for a moment, why he had stayed. There had been no
reason to linger after Jack had given him the things he required, but he had
felt a desire for human company. And so he had poured a measure of the opiate
into a tankard of ale and settled back to watch Jack indulge his sexual
appetites.
For a while the
two women worked on his companion, taking it in turns to kiss Jack's mouth and
caress his body. Then they put on a show for the two men, moaning loudly as
they kissed each other, rubbing their breasts together until the nipples stood
out like ripe cherries.
Inflamed by the
display, Jack reached for Isabeau, preferring her rich womanly curves to
Adeliz's more girlish form.
'Come and join
us, why don't you?' Jack mumbled, surfacing from between Isabeau's spread legs
and wiping her moisture from his chin. 'There's enough here for two. You don't
mind sharing your honey pot, do you my pretty?'
~ * ~
Author
Bio:
Cleo Cordell is
the author of nine erotic novels, a number of short stories and a forthcoming
anthology. The bestselling Captive Flesh, published in 1993, was
followed by Senses Bejewelled and Velvet Claws, and Cleo was
established as 'the new queen of suburban erotica' in Today and 'queen
of the undieworld' in the Woman's Journal. Her subsequent titles, Juliet
Rising, Path of the Tiger, Crimson Buccaneer and Opal Darkness, confirmed
her position as first lady of historical-fantasy erotica.
Writing as Susan
Swann, Cleo's alter ego explored contemporary erotica in The Discipline of
Pearls and The Ritual of Pearls.
Cleo began
working for Northamptonshire Libraries at the age of sixteen. This gave her
ample opportunity to explore the world of dark fantasy fiction, her first love.
When not reading or researching, she enjoys the cinema, her cats, wildlife and
cooking gourmet vegetarian food. At present she is working on the sequel to The
Flesh Endures, continuing the fortunes of the enigmatic alchemist Lord
Karolan Rakka.
~ * ~
Other Modern Erotic Classics available:
The Houdini Girl by Martyn
Bedford
Lie to Me by Tamara Faith
Berger
The Phallus of Osiris by Valentina
Cilescu
Kiss of Death by Valentina
Cilescu
The Flesh Constrained by Cleo
Cordell
The Flesh Endures by Cleo Cordell
Hogg by Samuel R. Delany
The Tides of Lust by Samuel R.
Delany
Sad Sister by Florence
Dugas
The Ties That Bind by Vanessa
DuriƩs
Dark Ride by Kent
Harrington
3 by Julie Hilden
Neptune & Surf by Marilyn Jaye
Lewis
Violent Silence by Paul
Mayersberg
Homme Fatale by Paul
Mayersberg
The Agency by David Meltzer
Burn by Michael Perkins
Dark Matter by Michael
Perkins
Evil Companions by Michael
Perkins
Beautiful Losers by Remittance
Girl
Meeting the Master by Elissa Wald
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