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 was never inclined towards action but she did have a strong streak of curiosity and a love of control that actually made the good lady rise from her sofa one afternoon and pay a visit to her new daughter-in-law's home.  The journey in her brougham left her full of complaints and annoyances but all the same, she made what seemed to her the interminable excursion across London and into the wilds of Hampstead. 


She had been born in the countryside but had never had a love of open spaces or flora and fauna and had escaped to London as soon as she could. Beatrice considered nature to be vaguely repulsive and wrong, the countryside fit only for yokels.  So the pleasures of green fields, heaths and commons and charming little villages were lost on her. She bewailed the leaving behind of comforting streets, houses and shops and what she felt to be civilization. 


Chapter 28: Beatrice pays the bride a visit