My Dark Vanessa: A Novel by Kate Elizabeth Russell

My Dark Vanessa is a graphic study of the long-term psychological destruction caused by a teacher's grooming and sexual abuse of his teenage student. The novel follows the victim into adulthood as she struggles to reconcile her perceived "love story" with the reality of statutory rape.

This book contains: alcohol, derogatory terms, dissociative trauma, drugs, dubious consent, eating disorder, explicit sexual activities/nudity, exploitation, grooming, pedophilia, physical distress, potentially patently offensive content, potentially prurient content, profanity, PTSD, self-harm, sexual dialogue/innuendo's, statutory rape, suicide ideation, victim shaming, and toxic relationships.