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 was in his study and Ellie busy upstairs with the children when an urgent knock came at their door early on Tuesday morning. Henry Winstone's man Joseph stood on the doorstep. The maid, alarmed by his haggard and distraught look, ran to fetch the master. 


 'What is it, Joseph?  What's happened?  For God's sake, sit down. You look as if you've been up all night!'


'I have, sir and I'm dry as a bone,' the man said, sitting down in exhaustion. He was not a young man and he had run up the steps too fast from the cab. He began to cough so much that Fred offered him a glass of soda water, which the fellow drank back with relief.


Chapter 58: Tragedy