In Christians own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world.
Grey CHRISTIAN GREY exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christians cold, wounded heart.
Will being with Ana dispel the horrors of his childhood that haunt Christian every night? Or will his dark sexual desires, his compulsion to control, and the self-loathing that fills his soul drive this girl away and destroy the fragile hope she offers him?
Darker Their scorching, sensual affair ended in heartbreak and recrimination, but Christian Grey cannot get Anastasia Steele out of his mind, or his blood. Determined to win her back, he tries to suppress his darkest desires and his need for complete control, and to love Ana on her own terms.
But the horrors of his childhood still haunt him, and Anas scheming boss, Jack Hyde, clearly wants her for himself. Can Christians confidant and therapist, Dr. Flynn, help him face down his demons? Or will the possessiveness of Elena, his seducer, and the deranged devotion of Leila, his former submissive, drag Christian down into the past?
And if Christian does win Ana back, can a man so dark and damaged ever hope to keep her?
After twenty-five years working in TV, E L James decided to pursue her childhood dream, and set out to write stories that readers would fall in love with. The result was the sensuous romanceFifty Shades of Greyand its two sequels,Fifty Shades DarkerandFifty Shades Freed, a trilogy that went on to sell more than 150 million copies worldwide in 52 languages. In 2015 she published the best sellerGrey, the story ofFifty Shades of Greyfrom the perspective of Christian Grey.
In 2012, E L James was named one ofTimemagazine's "Most Influential People in the World," one of Barbara Walters's "Ten Most Fascinating People of the Year," andPublishers Weeklys"Person of the Year. She went on to work as a producer on the film adaptations of her trilogy for Universal Pictures;Fifty Shades of Grey,the film, broke box-office records all over the world in 2015. Its 2017 sequelFifty Shades Darkerproved equally popular with fans of Ana and Christians story, and the concluding filmFifty Shades Freedwill be released in 2018.
E L James lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, their two sons and their two dogs in West London, where she is working on new novels and movie projects.
