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

After Christmas had been celebrated and the wedding day drew nearer, Joshua Farnham let Ellie roam his house and said that she could choose any of her mother's things she liked to furnish her new home. The young couple had found a charming little house in Hampstead, near Well Walk where the poet, John Keats, had once lived. It was double-fronted, roomy and had a reasonable piece of tree-shaded garden around it, which she had great plans to improve and fill with arches and roses and little bowers to sit in.


For the first time Ellie looked about her childhood home as if she was a stranger, intense and wondering, knowing she would never return there now except as a visitor. A wave of uncontrollable nostalgia overcame her and tears sprang to her eyes. This was an era now passed, her merry girlhood. Before her loomed married life fraught with deeps and shallows, high canyons and long tedious plains. 


Chapter 26: Ellie has deep thoughts before marriage