Fifty Shades

Fifty Shades is an adult erotic romance franchise created by the British writer E. L. James. It began as fan fiction set in the world of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels, first written under the title Master of the Universe by an author posting as Snowdragons Icequeen, and was then reworked into the full-length novel Fifty Shades of Grey. The story follows Anastasia Steele, a young college graduate who meets the business mogul Christian Grey and becomes his submissive partner, and it traces how their relationship develops. The franchise grew into an original trilogy of Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, which has also been issued as an omnibus edition called the Fifty Shades Trilogy, followed by two further novels and a film trilogy. It is placed here as a literature-originated franchise because its fictional universe first appeared on the page, not on screen.