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

He loathed going to her place, loathed seeing the woman. He now wondered that he could he have once touched that flesh and been touched by her. It had corrupted him. As for Jessaline, he couldn't bring himself to have any more to do with her either. The idea that she was his child ate into his being. She was a sweet girl, there was much could be done for her for she was not unintelligent.  He felt that it was his duty to help her but she reminded him constantly of the rape of her mother, Bessie, and he couldn't bear the association. 


Chapter 53: Fred has begins to wonder