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

Ellie sat at her dressing table and looked at herself in the mirror. Mulhall, her maid, was arranging her dark hair in plaited coils on which she set a wreath of bridal orange blossoms. They were made of wax with little seed pearls interwoven amongst the leaves. She would have preferred real blossoms but it was too early in the year for that. 


She took up a small leather-covered box from the table and opened it again, admiring the beautiful earrings and necklace of diamonds and sapphires. These were a wedding gift from Fred - 'something new' for the bride - and she was to wear them to the wedding, he had said. They were truly beautiful, just the sort of parure she would have picked for herself. Fred had a knack for finding little gifts as if he knew instinctively what would suit and delight her. 


The maid smiled at her in the mirror and said, 'How lovely you will look, Miss Ellie ...a beautiful bride.'


Chapter 27: The Wedding Day - and Night