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When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time. Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.

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E L James Fifty Shades of Grey The first book in the Fifty Shades Trilogy - photo 1

E L James

Fifty Shades of Grey

The first book in the Fifty Shades Trilogy series, 2011

Acknowledgements I am indebted to the following people for their help and - photo 2

Acknowledgements

I am indebted to the following people for their help and support To my husband - photo 3

I am indebted to the following people for their help and support:

To my husband Niall thank you for tolerating my obsession, being a domestic god and doing the first edit.

To my boss Lisa thank you for putting up with me over the last year or so while I indulged in this madness.

To CCL Ill never tell but thank you.

To the original bunker babes thank you for your friendship and constant support.

To SR thank you for all the helpful advice from the start and for going first.

To Sue thanks for sorting me out.

To Amanda and all at TWCS thank you for taking a punt.

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I scowl with frustration at myself in the mirror Damn my hair it just wont - photo 4

I scowl with frustration at myself in the mirror. Damn my hair it just wont behave, and damn Katherine Kavanagh for being ill and subjecting me to this ordeal. I should be studying for my final exams, which are next week, yet here I am trying to brush my hair into submission. I must not sleep with it wet. I must not sleep with it wet. Reciting this mantra several times, I attempt, once more, to bring it under control with the brush. I roll my eyes in exasperation and gaze at the pale, brown-haired girl with blue eyes too big for her face staring back at me, and give up. My only option is to restrain my wayward hair in a ponytail and hope that I look semi-presentable.

Kate is my roommate, and she has chosen today of all days to succumb to the flu. Therefore, she cannot attend the interview shed arranged to do, with some mega-industrialist tycoon Ive never heard of, for the student newspaper. So I have been volunteered. I have final exams to cram for, one essay to finish, and Im supposed to be working this afternoon, but no today I have to drive a hundred and sixty-five miles to downtown Seattle in order to meet the enigmatic CEO of Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc. As an exceptional entrepreneur and major benefactor of our university, his time is extraordinarily precious much more precious than mine but he has granted Kate an interview. A real coup, she tells me. Damn her extracurricular activities.

Kate is huddled on the couch in the living room.

Ana, Im sorry. It took me nine months to get this interview. It will take another six to reschedule, and well both have graduated by then. As the editor, I cant blow this off. Please, Kate begs me in her rasping, sore throat voice. How does she do it? Even ill she looks gamine and gorgeous, strawberry blonde hair in place and green eyes bright, although now red-rimmed and runny. I ignore my pang of unwelcome sympathy.

Of course Ill go, Kate. You should get back to bed. Would you like some Nyquil or Tylenol?

Nyquil, please. Here are the questions and my mini-disc recorder. Just press record here. Make notes, Ill transcribe it all.

I know nothing about him, I murmur, trying and failing to suppress my rising panic.

The questions will see you through. Go. Its a long drive. I dont want you to be late.

Okay, Im going. Get back to bed. I made you some soup to heat up later. I stare at her fondly. Only for you, Kate, would I do this.

I will. Good luck. And thanks, Ana as usual, youre my lifesaver.

Gathering my satchel, I smile wryly at her, then head out the door to the car. I cannot believe I have let Kate talk me into this. But then Kate can talk anyone into anything. Shell make an exceptional journalist. Shes articulate, strong, persuasive, argumentative, beautiful and shes my dearest, dearest friend.

The roads are clear as I set off from Vancouver, WA toward Portland and the I-5. Its early, and I dont have to be in Seattle until two this afternoon. Fortunately, Kates lent me her sporty Mercedes CLK. Im not sure Wanda, my old VW Beetle, would make the journey in time. Oh, the Merc is a fun drive, and the miles slip away as I floor the pedal to the metal.

My destination is the headquarters of Mr. Greys global enterprise. Its a huge twenty-story office building, all curved glass and steel, an architects utilitarian fantasy, with Grey House written discreetly in steel over the glass front doors. Its a quarter to two when I arrive, greatly relieved that Im not late as I walk into the enormous and frankly intimidating glass, steel, and white sandstone lobby.

Behind the solid sandstone desk, a very attractive, groomed, blonde young woman smiles pleasantly at me. Shes wearing the sharpest charcoal suit jacket and white shirt I have ever seen. She looks immaculate.

Im here to see Mr. Grey. Anastasia Steele for Katherine Kavanagh.

Excuse me one moment, Miss Steele. She arches her eyebrow slightly as I stand self-consciously before her. I am beginning to wish Id borrowed one of Kates formal blazers rather than wear my navy blue jacket. I have made an effort and worn my one and only skirt, my sensible brown knee-length boots and a blue sweater. For me, this is smart. I tuck one of the escaped tendrils of my hair behind my ear as I pretend she doesnt intimidate me.

Miss Kavanagh is expected. Please sign in here, Miss Steele. Youll want the last elevator on the right, press for the twentieth floor. She smiles kindly at me, amused no doubt, as I sign in.

She hands me a security pass that has VISITOR very firmly stamped on the front. I cant help my smirk. Surely its obvious that Im just visiting. I dont fit in here at all. Nothing changes, I inwardly sigh. Thanking her, I walk over to the bank of elevators past the two security men who are both far more smartly dressed than I am in their well-cut black suits.

The elevator whisks me with terminal velocity to the twentieth floor. The doors slide open, and Im in another large lobby again all glass, steel, and white sandstone. Im confronted by another desk of sandstone and another young blonde woman dressed impeccably in black and white who rises to greet me.

Miss Steele, could you wait here, please? She points to a seated area of white leather chairs.

Behind the leather chairs is a spacious glass-walled meeting room with an equally spacious dark wood table and at least twenty matching chairs around it. Beyond that, there is a floor-to-ceiling window with a view of the Seattle skyline that looks out through the city toward the Sound. Its a stunning vista, and Im momentarily paralyzed by the view. Wow.

I sit down, fish the questions from my satchel, and go through them, inwardly cursing Kate for not providing me with a brief biography. I know nothing about this man Im about to interview. He could be ninety or he could be thirty. The uncertainty is galling, and my nerves resurface, making me fidget. Ive never been comfortable with one-on-one interviews, preferring the anonymity of a group discussion where I can sit inconspicuously at the back of the room. To be honest, I prefer my own company, reading a classic British novel, curled up in a chair in the campus library. Not sitting twitching nervously in a colossal glass and stone edifice.

I roll my eyes at myself. Get a grip, Steele. Judging from the building, which is too clinical and modern, I guess Grey is in his forties: fit, tanned, and fair-haired to match the rest of the personnel.

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