Après une liaison passionnée qui s’est achevée dans les larmes et les reproches, Christian Grey est incapable d’oublier Anastasia Steele.  Il l’a dans la peau. Décidé à regagner son amour, il s’efforce de réprimer ses désirs les plus troubles et son besoin de tout contrôler pour enfin aimer Ana selon ses conditions.
Hélas, son enfance continue de le hanter, d’autant que Christian comprend que Jack Hyde, le patron sournois d’Ana, la veut clairement pour lui seul.
Le Dr Flynn, confident et thérapeute de Christian, parviendra-t-il à l’aider à affronter ses démons  ? Ou est-ce que l’amour exclusif d’Elena et l’adoration insensée de son ex-soumise, Leila, finiront par le retenir dans le passé  ?
Et si, malgré ses tourments et ses obsessions, Christian réussit à reconquérir Ana, sera-t-il capable de la garder  ?

"And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy."

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana's quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey's singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey's secrets and explores her own dark desires.

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This book is intended for mature audiences.

In Christian's own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled hundreds of millions of readers around the world.

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 Christian's 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?