Fifty Shades Darker new project, and it was announced that Kim Basinger would play Elena Lincoln. Fifty Shades Darker Fifty Shades Darker is a 2012 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. It is the second installment in the "Fifty Shades" trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. The first and third volumes, "Fifty Shades of Grey" and "Fifty Shades Freed", were published in 2011 and 2012, respectively. The novel is published by Vintage Books and reached No. 1 on the "USA Today" best seller list. Three days after
Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian process of writing another book in the "Fifty Shades" series due to popular demand from her fanbase. Later that same day she posted an image on her Instagram account that confirmed that the novel would be titled "Grey", that it would be told from the perspective of Christian Grey, and that she had deliberately chosen its publication date in order to coincide with Grey's birthday. Pre-order sales for "Grey" have been extremely strong, which led many retailers to order large quantities of the book in order to meet release day demand. An editor for "The Bookseller" also commented that "Grey"