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

Fred sat down heavily on a chair and stared into space. Sue regarded him with a little smile of pleasure and triumph on her face.


'I've so looked forward to telling you this some day,' she said, 'and here you are, let yourself in for it. No, my smart gent, you aren't leaving me that easy. You may not want to fuck me any more, for which I can only be grateful as you're no fun at all, but you won't stop buying me pictures; any pictures I want, I shall have. Or else your missus will know of it all. And if she doesn't care, then maybe the rest of the world may. Tommie and me, we'll tell all society you've been having your own daughter.  You could end up in prison.  Jess will do anything I say and she'll swear blind you have.'


'No-one will believe such a thing!  God, how terrible! Thankfully I didn't make love to her,' he added in a faint whisper.


Chapter 49: A little bit of blackmail