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

It transpired that Mrs Tippy Winstone was expecting a child very soon, which went some way to explain the haste with which the young couple had married and moved out of those frightful lodgings by the docks. Fred had suspected something of the sort.  He was glad because it meant that Henry was at last obliged to remove himself from that insalubrious area and settle himself down in a decent home with a pleasant young wife. Tippy had shaped up nicely and did her very best to conduct herself in a ladylike manner. 


Chapter 56: Henry's happy news