Two artists, Fred and Henry,  immersed in the Pre-Raphaelite art movement, with its yearning for romantic escape from the materialism of Victorian society.  Two men deeply in love with their beautiful models.  But every heart hides a secret and both couples have put certain shameful events behind them, events that, if exposed, could threaten their blissful new life. The Crimson Bed, a family heirloom passed down through the female blood line since Elizabethan times, brings with it ancestral secrets that will eventually affect Fred leading him into the darkness of London slums and a very different world to that of his peaceful home. Passions escalate as he becomes increasingly jealous of his wife’s closeness to her handsome godfather, Lord Percy Dillinger, and when shocking truths finally come to light, their lives will never be the same again . . .

Adult Sexual scenes

The Crimson Bed created by Loretta Proctor an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

The Crimson Bed

There stood a tall young woman, well muffled in a cape and bonnet, though it was not a cold day. Two older ladies with very sour expressions stood behind her. Eleanor Farnham scarcely gave Fred a look but deposited her street garments upon him, as if assuming he was a servant, and made her way straight to the studio. The other ladies did the same and followed on behind her like the carriages of a train. 


He stared at the capes and bonnets heaped into his arms and then smiled and shrugged. Folding and draping them with his usual care and neatness, he put them all on a chair in the hallway and followed the ladies into the studio. 


Chapter 14: The Girl in the Ruby Dress