Beg For It

by Madison Fox

"You better run like your life depends on it, princess."

She’s been my secret obsession for years.

The pageant princess.

The perfect daughter.

The good girl.

Someone like her isn’t supposed to be with someone like me.

But I see the comments she leaves on my videos and the dark desires she hides.

Blair is begging for the man in the mask, not knowing I’m the guy all her friends hate.

She’s back in town for the weekend, and I can no longer stay away.

For one night, I’ll make her mine.

Beg For It is a short and spicy dark romance novella about a girl who makes a deal to spend the night of Halloween with a masked video game streamer, not knowing he has been obsessed with her for years. Perfect for readers who like questionable uses of switchblades and being chased through corn mazes.

Please check trigger warnings at the beginning of the book before proceeding.

Genres: Dark Romance, Halloween, Romance, Novella, Stalker, Smut, Spicy

163 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 17, 2025

About the author

Madison Fox was born and raised in Australia but has been living in the United States for the past decade. While she still watches Australian football every Sunday, she currently lives in Nevada as a cat mum to Zelda (yes, based on the video game).

When Madison isn’t reading or writing a new book, she can be found drowning in one of her other obsessions, such as k-dramas, manga, anime, video games, and espresso martinis.

GOOD GAME is her debut romance novel.

Reviews

[Ana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was promised questionable uses of a knife and I got questionable uses of a knife... five stars

[Emily McCuaig · Rating 4 out of 5]

i need this to be a full length book. i need to see them fall in love, eli is such a baby. i need to see them do aftercare im gonna SCREAM

[Grace Btrs (very busy - semi ia - trying to catch up)]

Why it's on my tbr:
Ana's short but hilarious review.

[Saba · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yes, I read the entire thing. Yes, I loved every fucking bit of it.

[Alexis Tingley · Rating 4 out of 5]

“The end for now” SO WE’RE GETTING MORE RIGHT?! I LOVED this, I need more of their story. I know this a novella but I’ll take a novel, thanks

[LuvKayKay · Rating 4 out of 5]

If only this was longer oh my god. I need this as a novel. I would love to see their love story. Eli’s friends though yes please I need a book on Felix and Bash like ASAP. What a great sexy Halloween novella. I enjoyed this so much and the scenes omg yes.

[⊰ Anais ⊱ · Rating 3 out of 5]

📱🫦🎃🔪𝓒𝓵𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓬𝓲𝓸𝓷:𝟑,𝟕𝟓/𝟓 ⭐⭐⭐✨✩✩

Me gustó, la autora tiene un estilo de escritura bastante sencillo y fácil de leer.

A pesar de ser una historia corta, logró desarrollarlo de forma coherente. En cuanto al spice 3/5 para mí

Me quedé con ganas de más, la historia tiene potencial. Me dió vibes como de The Dare de Harley Laroux

[KaylaLaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love me a masked gamer! Eli is the town pariah, he’s hated by everyone. Blair is the popular girl, she was in pageant’s when she was young. She is back at home for her parents annual Halloween party, but sneaks out to hang out with her friends at a different party. At the party she runs in to Phantom, a super popular masked gamer that she is obsessed with. Little does she know, Phantom and Eli are one in the same. She agrees to be his for one night, and he will help her live out all of her dark fantasies. Please check triggers before going into this. I’m also so mad this just ended with a “The end for now…”, what am I supposed to do with my life now hahahahha. Also I will just mention, this is extremely similar to The Losers duet by Harley Laroux. So if you like that book, you will like this book.

[Kendra Renae · Rating 5 out of 5]

⭐️4.8 🌶️5



Whew baby this was everything I needed and Eli aka my shaylaaaaaa deserves the world and he better get his girl. That cliffhanger pissed me off, but got me even more excited because I’m ready for the next book!!

[Darkest Bellé · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars!

[hayley · Rating 3 out of 5]

includes: inappropriate use of a knife!!

[Moon_child31 · Rating 2.25 out of 5]

2,25⭐️

[Kate Animate]

Не зайшов стиль написання

[Snow]

if we’re coworkers do not perceive this. if we’re friends…you can perceive this but let me live my truth

[Christina (Bloodycrimsonreads) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ping Me by Molly Doyle left me with a desire to read more masked media men, and since I’ve previously read The System series by Madison, Beg For It was just waiting to be picked up, really.

Halloween party, masked man, prim and proper girl hiding dark desires, losers vs popular girl, kind of enemies, appearances to upkeep. You see the vision. It gave me loose vibes from Losers by Harley Laroux and it was thrilling (emphasis on loose).

I wished it was longer than it is, because the story was interesting enough to have an actual background and continuity to it. But the ending suggests we’ll see more of the characters, so we’ll see. Speaking of the ending, it left me quite surprised and on edge; I need more.

Amusing little read for the spooky times ahead.

4 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔰
𝔖𝔭𝔦𝔠𝔶

[Brianna - Four Paws and a Book]

This was the first book that I've read from Madison, and I will definitely pick up her full length stories now! She knows how to write tension and banter and can we have a moment for the smut! A really fun way to spend halloween evening.

[mel ❀⋆.ೃ࿔ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75⭐️

[vyara ♪ · Rating 3 out of 5]

At least Eli is aware filming thirst traps is cringe as fuck because I was gonna die from embarrassment😭

[ChieraRose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Absolutely ate this up. Fast paced, smutty and a mouth to die for hehehehe

Cannot wait for the next

[kmiiii · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️

como me vas a dejar asi????? COMO??? yo necesito saber que pasa con los dos por favor 😭
eli es un re tierno con ella pero es malo con todos y todos le tienen miedo blabla PERFEXTO. que maravilla de cliche ese podria leerlo un millon de veces y no me cansaría
hola si para cuando la continuación????? alo???

“—Te ves hermosa cuando estás hecha un desastre. Mi desastre.”

“Años y años anhelando a esta mujer que me mata, cuyos amigos literalmente han intentado matarme, y sigo tan perdido en ella como el primer día. Ojalá pudiera librarme de ella. Tenía la esperanza de que la diversión de esta noche calmara a la bestia que llevo dentro, pero solo la ha despertado aún más de su letargo.
No sé qué voy a hacer a partir de ahora.”

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 - 4.5 stars!

Soo sooo yummy.

But I’m real annoyed that this ended up on a cliffhanger. I went in thinking it was a HEA😂.

But this story was delicious and just a little dark.

“I own this pussy until the sun comes up, so you’ll take what I give and say thank you like the good fucking girl you are.”

I’m going to need their HEA….

[Katie Kleiman · Rating 3.5 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Alex (HEABookNerd) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I only read BEG FOR IT because I loved this author's other series, THE SYSTEM, so take my review with a grain of salt because I don't usually do dark romance. The writing was engaging and good and overall this wasn't bad but it just wasn't for me. Eli was obsessive, possessive, and emotionally attached to his knives while Blair was the perfect good girl princess on the outside but was longing to break free of that (without actually doing much to try). The spice was plentiful and well written and I liked the small moments of humor between Eli and his friends.

But I just can't take it seriously and rather than being all into Eli's darkness and finding it sexy I just found myself laughing at these 20-somethings who think they're hot shit. Between Eli's unhinged, and completely unrealistic behavior and Blair's macho friends trying to act all tough I just couldn't suspend my disbelief. I can't be expected to keep a straight face every time these small town, barely out of college guys say "everybody knows not to mess with me". Sorry for laughing so much at parts that weren't supposed to be funny. And then we got a cliffhanger so there wasn't even any resolution to the relationship.

Content Warning: MMC stalks FMC; questionable knife play; violence and bullying (not between MCs)

[Rishika · Rating 5 out of 5]

"My friends hate him, our peers fear him, and the town avoids him. He’s supposed to just be an outcast with a knife obsession.
𝘼 𝙠𝙣𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝"

Spicy and deranged. This book delivered exactly what I crave in a novella. Absolute greatness it was!
Blair has always been the perfect pageant princess for everyone until her dark underlying desires are being stripped away and bought to life by no one other than her desired masked online streamer she thirsts heavy on! Their interaction is steamy and sexy however things take a wild turn 🌶🔥 all in ONE halloween night.

The smut was so damn good, specially the switchblade scene! Absolutely Chef's kiss.
Elliot and Blair's chemistry and the tension between em was to die for!

If you are into masked mmc's who are morally grey and unhinged, This one's for you!
Totally worth the read!

[Tabitha Malinowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm agreeing with the majority of the reviews for this novella. It needs to be a novel. This is everything I wanted in a spicy dark romance that involves masked men who are also, gamers. The biggest question I have is... Will there be a part two? Another novella or something leading up to the WTF ending I just got. Because WTH! You can't just end it like that! I have questions that need to be answered dammit. 😭

[Amber (Amber Reads Romance) · Rating 5 out of 5]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

This is just what the doctor ordered. I have had a really hard time focusing on reading right now and this delivered exactly what I wanted. I am obsessed with a man in a mask...Kylo Ren, Ghost from CoD, the Mandalorian, Boba Fett. I could go on and on. I always get thirst traps of Ghost all the time, so I can relate to the heroine. Give me a masked, morally grey hero and throw in some knife play and I am in.

[hannah | han.nahsbooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

honestly this was so fun! it’s a perfect halloween novella. i loved the plot and characters. eli is my fav! i really liked the pacing and how much we got. i do wish it was a full novella or i hope we do get more in the future like it says. the spice was great but not too much. i also enjoyed the drama involved. i’m dying to see how their story ends up! highly recommend!!

[Aly Carnevale · Rating 5 out of 5]

i think this has been my favorite novella of 2025. i NEED more of Blair and Eli but I also need a felix and bas book because why is my new favorite line "i told him to take a nap, not meet the reaper" HAHAHAHA

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great for the spice, but I really wished there was more to the story, especially leaving the ending so open and unresolved. I really liked Eli, but I wasn't that keen on Blair. Still, a short, smutty read which was entertaining and unhinged.

[Ellie Larkin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was SO HOT, and I loved every second of it. I do wish that the ending wasn't so open-ended, but that's just me because I wanted more of a happy ending (call me lame, idc). I hope there's a sequel coming in the near future!