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

Beatrice Thorpe had been a beauty once but her looks had long gone.  She was now fat and overblown like a rose whose petals quivered on the stem, ready to fall ignominiously to the ground.  Her eyes were half-hooded by fallen flesh, her lips now thinner and lost in the mounds of fat that were her reddened cheeks, the one-time elegant slenderness beyond the hope of any corset. She no longer wore the restricting garments, for they were acutely uncomfortable these days, and thus she spilled out in all directions.


Chapter 17: The Finished Portrait