Fifty Shades Darker 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 leaving Christian, Anastasia "Ana" Steele begins her job as personal assistant to Jack
Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, have been reissued (this time without pseudonyms) to meet the higher demand. On 1 August 2012, Amazon UK announced that it had sold more copies of "Fifty Shades of Grey" than it had the entire "Harry Potter" series combined, making E. L. James its best-selling author, replacing J. K. Rowling, though worldwide the "Harry Potter" series sold more than 450 million copies compared with "Fifty Shades of Grey"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s sales of 60 million copies. "Fifty Shades of Grey" has topped best-seller lists around the world, including those of the United Kingdom and the United States. The series had sold over