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...

Suburban madam Heloise, with no one left to trust, decides to get out of the game when another suburban madam is brutally murdered, forcing her to stay one step ahead of a killer -- and the father of her child -- who is just as lethal behind bars as he was on the outside.