Until the day Anastasia Steele stumbles into Christian Grey's office in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair, his life is orderly, disciplined, and completely vacant. He makes an effort to let her go, but instead finds himself overcome by a wave of emotion he cannot control. Christian has never met a woman who could see right through him, past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to his cold, wounded heart, like shy, unworldly Ana.