Literatti: Fiction By Deslea

This story, told from Voldemort's point of view as a younger man during the First War, sees him hell-bent on seducing and possessing Bella as a trophy. To his own consternation, he finds himself falling for her, and just as capriciously, her loyalty outlasts his manipulations and charm - but he's still his conniving self, as well. Read the text version here or the illustrated edition here. The illustrated edition has 25 artworks and non-explicit artistic nudity.

"Snape and Tonks are strictly a sideline – I've only written them three times – but I enjoy them a lot. One of the first things we're told about Tonks is that she was able to filter out unimportant information and zoom in on the truth, and I think she would have figured out Snape's reasons for being Dumbledore's spy – and therefore the truth of his allegiance – very quickly."

Ratings are roughly equivalent to those used by the Motion Picture Association of America.

G: General audiences.
PG: Parental Guidance. Adult concepts and dilemmas, but without graphic detail.
M (or R): Mature audience. Adult concepts and dilemmas, anti-social attitudes, people doing the wrong thing and not necessarily feeling guilty about it. Also includes low-level sexual content (a few soft-focus paragraphs with little or no direct discussion of body parts). Most of my work is M.
NC-17: No children 17 or under. May contain explicit and extended descriptions of sexual activity, brief but graphic sexual descriptions, or graphic violence. A couple of my works contain rape scenes; these are graphic but not sexualised, and are appropriately marked with content warnings.
Trigger/Content Warnings: I take a conservative approach to triggers and will generally warn for anything that might trigger reader trauma to do with violence, self-harm, or grief. If the term "dark themes" is used, this may mean too many dark themes to mention, a dark theme that I don't want to reveal because it's a plot twist, or a vague dark feel that doesn't have a more precise description. Caveat lector.