Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction .... my every desire .... mine. My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We'd never work. It was too hard, too painful ... except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate...

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...

Penelope Ashford turns to handsome nobleman Barnaby Adair for help in investigating the disappearances of several of the orphan children she has been caring for. Defying the social rules of Regency London, Penelope and Barnaby begin to unravel the mystery and discover a shocking link to some of London's most powerful men.

For Damien, our obsession is a game. For me, it is fiercely, blindingly, real. Damien Stark's need is palpable-- his need for pleasure, his need for control, his need for me. Beautiful and brilliant yet tortured at his core, he is in every way my match. I have agreed to be his alone, and now I want him to be fully mine. I want us to possess each other beyond the sweetest edge of our ecstasy, into the deepest desires of our souls. To let the fire that...