Three Authors of Contemporary Romance: Sylvia Day, E.L. James and Zane

By Lilian Calix
October 14, 2014
Hamilton Grange Library

If you are a fan of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy by E.L. James, you would love the Crossfire quintet by Sylvia Day

Fifty Shades of Grey tells the erotic tale of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey.  Anastasia meets Christian by accident. She travels to his office to interview him as favor to her best friend, Kate. As Christian develops and interest in Anastasia and their lives begin to change forever.

Fifty Shades of Grey is followed by Fifty Shades Darker and concludes with Fifty Shades Freed. The much anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey film will be released February 13, 2015. 

 The Crossfire series starts with Bared to You, Reflected in You,  and Entwined with You.

Bared to You tells the tale of the beautiful mysterious millionaire Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell, both individual survivors of childhood abuse that grow into successful yet haunted people. As they get to know each other they transform and change while forming an unbreakable bond.    

The fourth book in the Crossfire series is entitled, Captivated by You, and will be released, November 18, 2014. The fifth and final installment in the series is still in the works. 

The novel Addicted by Zane is about a character named Zoe Reynard. Zoe is a very successful African-American woman who is addicted to sex. Her addiction threatens her life, her marriage to the perfect man, and her business.

Zoe realizes that she has a problem and seeks a help with therapist to begin to work on herself and her problems.  As she tells her story and analyzes her choices Zoe searches for the root of her dangerous addiction. 

The Addicted film was released October 10, 2014, and stars Sharon Leal as Zoe Reynard.