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Fieldwork: A Monster Romance Short Read
Podcaster Emma Thorne will do anything for the truth about New Eden Collective, the cult where twenty-three people died in a night of unspeakable violence. When she discovers an otherworldly creature who witnessed it all, she strikes a dangerous pieces of the horrifying story in exchange for increasingly intimate contact. With each revelation, the price grows steeper, and Emma finds herself craving not just the truth but the demon's cold touch, his inhuman body, and the dark pleasure he offers. But when the last piece of the puzzle demands total surrender, Emma must decide how much she's willing to give and whether she can walk away from the one being who truly sees her.
- GenresMonster Romance
87 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 29, 2025
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February 22, 2026
Emma, girl... that was some real boots on the ground journalism... boots, jeans, panties & bra on the ground! the plot kept me locked in. exploring the crimes of cults is eerily captivating, but the smut was not my cup of tea. don't get me wrong, it was freaky deaky, but quid pro quo in monster smut seems a bit like "come here little girl, get in my van in you want some candy" 👹👹👹
January 28, 2026
I need more books with cults... and monster fawkin... that's it.
kthxbyeeeee 😎✌🏾
kthxbyeeeee 😎✌🏾
February 18, 2026
Wow… I’m not entirely sure what I expected going into this one, but it genuinely surprised me.
Having recently completed a unit on New Religious Movements, the themes surrounding cult dynamics, manipulation, and collective trauma hit particularly hard and was one of the reasons why I chose this book.
While the book is relatively short, it doesn’t shy away from exploring cults, mental manipulation, the search for a better world and the ways people look for meaning away from the mainstream. Readers who have personal experiences connected to cults or religious trauma may want to check content warnings beforehand, as some of these elements are intense despite the story’s unusual premise.
What makes this book especially unique is the bold juxtaposition at its core. On one hand, you have heavy themes of loss, control, and truth-seeking. On the other, you have a deeply unconventional monster romance featuring an otherworldly, scarecrow-like demon; six fingers on each hand, two penises (YES), and an unsettling physicality that is as bizarre as it is strangely compelling. It’s absurd. It’s dark. And somehow, it works.
There’s a tension between horror and intimacy, between trauma and desire, that shouldn’t balance as well as it does....... yet I found myself completely intrigued. I didn’t expect to enjoy the sheer audacity of it, but I also couldn’t look away.
This was strange, heavy, provocative, and unexpectedly memorable. I didn’t hate it! in fact, I’m still thinking about it.
Having recently completed a unit on New Religious Movements, the themes surrounding cult dynamics, manipulation, and collective trauma hit particularly hard and was one of the reasons why I chose this book.
While the book is relatively short, it doesn’t shy away from exploring cults, mental manipulation, the search for a better world and the ways people look for meaning away from the mainstream. Readers who have personal experiences connected to cults or religious trauma may want to check content warnings beforehand, as some of these elements are intense despite the story’s unusual premise.
What makes this book especially unique is the bold juxtaposition at its core. On one hand, you have heavy themes of loss, control, and truth-seeking. On the other, you have a deeply unconventional monster romance featuring an otherworldly, scarecrow-like demon; six fingers on each hand, two penises (YES), and an unsettling physicality that is as bizarre as it is strangely compelling. It’s absurd. It’s dark. And somehow, it works.
There’s a tension between horror and intimacy, between trauma and desire, that shouldn’t balance as well as it does....... yet I found myself completely intrigued. I didn’t expect to enjoy the sheer audacity of it, but I also couldn’t look away.
This was strange, heavy, provocative, and unexpectedly memorable. I didn’t hate it! in fact, I’m still thinking about it.
January 7, 2026
ok but why the cult trauma?
I’m sorry either make it a longer piece and add more nuance to the traumatic events of the cult side story, or scrap it and just give me the spice. It was so sad to read about the cult while there was also monster smut simultaneously 🫤 nope. Two peens tho.
I’m sorry either make it a longer piece and add more nuance to the traumatic events of the cult side story, or scrap it and just give me the spice. It was so sad to read about the cult while there was also monster smut simultaneously 🫤 nope. Two peens tho.
February 24, 2026
Alright… buckle up.
So boom — we got Emma Thorne out here grinding in these podcast streets. She’s “struggling” with only 50K subscribers 🙄. Entitled. Anyway, she’s mad cause she ain’t pulling in sponsorships. The big companies want Steph Curry numbers.
So she says, “I need a story.”
Not a story… THE story of the past 50 years!
Enter: the New Eden Collective massacre of 1978.
Twenty plus people that belonged to a cult gone in one night with little to no answers.
She’s snooping around this busted up cult land finding crumbs and…
“What the fuck is that over there? Is that a goddamn 7 foot scarecrow man??” 👀
Sho is!! And it’s alive too!!
Breathing AND talking…
So he tells her “Yea I know what happened that night. But since this is America everything’s got a price tag. You want answers, you gotta invest.”
At first it’s innocent.
Little hand-holding. He gives her a crumb of info and she like an addict saying “I NEED MORE.”
Scarecrow like,
“Slow down baby… we just met. Pace yourself.”
But the deeper she goes the darker the truth gets…
And the freakier the transactions become.
Here’s the thing, the massacre story was so good I felt like I was pimping this poor girl out. Whenever she would get reluctant I’d say “C’mon Emma! Do it for ME! Daddy Pickle needs you to work them corners for that info!”
This story kept me engaged cause I legitimately wanted to know what happened. Yes it cost US Emma giving up that butt but dammit it was a price I was willing to pay for the both of us!
Solid read. As usual if you don’t mind being uncomfortable, like reading about a scarecrow with two meat whistles then give it a read!
So boom — we got Emma Thorne out here grinding in these podcast streets. She’s “struggling” with only 50K subscribers 🙄. Entitled. Anyway, she’s mad cause she ain’t pulling in sponsorships. The big companies want Steph Curry numbers.
So she says, “I need a story.”
Not a story… THE story of the past 50 years!
Enter: the New Eden Collective massacre of 1978.
Twenty plus people that belonged to a cult gone in one night with little to no answers.
She’s snooping around this busted up cult land finding crumbs and…
“What the fuck is that over there? Is that a goddamn 7 foot scarecrow man??” 👀
Sho is!! And it’s alive too!!
Breathing AND talking…
So he tells her “Yea I know what happened that night. But since this is America everything’s got a price tag. You want answers, you gotta invest.”
At first it’s innocent.
Little hand-holding. He gives her a crumb of info and she like an addict saying “I NEED MORE.”
Scarecrow like,
“Slow down baby… we just met. Pace yourself.”
But the deeper she goes the darker the truth gets…
And the freakier the transactions become.
Here’s the thing, the massacre story was so good I felt like I was pimping this poor girl out. Whenever she would get reluctant I’d say “C’mon Emma! Do it for ME! Daddy Pickle needs you to work them corners for that info!”
This story kept me engaged cause I legitimately wanted to know what happened. Yes it cost US Emma giving up that butt but dammit it was a price I was willing to pay for the both of us!
Solid read. As usual if you don’t mind being uncomfortable, like reading about a scarecrow with two meat whistles then give it a read!
December 30, 2025
No lie, AB gives good monster romance. This time around, a woman looking for a truth that's been long buried meets a creature who can answer all her questions. For a price. To be fair, he doesn't answer any actual questions. He just...shows her. He shows her all the things that led up to the night when twenty-three people died.
And Emma can't walk away. Not literally. She COULD walk away. Her monster is all about consent, after all. But she can't let this story go untold, so she agrees to his first price and learns the first part of the story. Then she agrees to the second. And the third. As the story gets darker, his payment gets more intimate. Just the touch of her hand. Then a hug. Then more.
Honestly, Emma's not adverse to any of it. It might be a little strange at first, but she doesn't feel threatened by the creature. She willing pays his price time and again. The story she's learning saps her, however. It's sad and terrible and she wants to know how it all came to a head.
A little touch, a little more, a terrible story, a lonely creature, and a woman who wants the truth. Good stuff all around!
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
And Emma can't walk away. Not literally. She COULD walk away. Her monster is all about consent, after all. But she can't let this story go untold, so she agrees to his first price and learns the first part of the story. Then she agrees to the second. And the third. As the story gets darker, his payment gets more intimate. Just the touch of her hand. Then a hug. Then more.
Honestly, Emma's not adverse to any of it. It might be a little strange at first, but she doesn't feel threatened by the creature. She willing pays his price time and again. The story she's learning saps her, however. It's sad and terrible and she wants to know how it all came to a head.
A little touch, a little more, a terrible story, a lonely creature, and a woman who wants the truth. Good stuff all around!
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
December 18, 2025
took me a hilariously long time to realize what i had gotten myself into pFFTTT
that said it was a fun enough short romp with an interesting dichotomy between the spice and the trauma. there were a lot of things that had me unsure plausibility-wise, but i was willing enough to put it aside. the story of the cult was fascinating in particular, though it was clear the author was like “what is the worst possible thing that could have possibly been done” and went for it, and it wasn’t held with the kind of gravity i would have wanted. even still, it didn’t feel like the point of the story, and with the close first person pov, i was in the world of a character who was actively organizing her priorities in a way that almost believably put the horrors aside (if this was a longer book, it would have been i-hate-this-character territory, but it was short enough to prevent that)
that said it was a fun enough short romp with an interesting dichotomy between the spice and the trauma. there were a lot of things that had me unsure plausibility-wise, but i was willing enough to put it aside. the story of the cult was fascinating in particular, though it was clear the author was like “what is the worst possible thing that could have possibly been done” and went for it, and it wasn’t held with the kind of gravity i would have wanted. even still, it didn’t feel like the point of the story, and with the close first person pov, i was in the world of a character who was actively organizing her priorities in a way that almost believably put the horrors aside (if this was a longer book, it would have been i-hate-this-character territory, but it was short enough to prevent that)
December 16, 2025
Anybody seen that documentary "Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey"?
For real sick. Not quite the ending of that documentary, but a sick mix of some Jonestown, Warren Jeff's type cult shit going down.
BUT with a supernatural twisssst. (not for the cult, of course, but the gal investigating the aftermath)
Probably one of the most enjoyable stories by AB I've read so far
For real sick. Not quite the ending of that documentary, but a sick mix of some Jonestown, Warren Jeff's type cult shit going down.
BUT with a supernatural twisssst. (not for the cult, of course, but the gal investigating the aftermath)
Probably one of the most enjoyable stories by AB I've read so far
December 21, 2025
I have loved pretty much everything Adrian Blue has written. This was different, though. This one was more intriguing than it was sexy. I kept reading for Sarah's story, I actually didn't even care for the steamy scenes. Which is new for me, honestly. The smut almost didn't fit the storyline. I think Adrian could venture out into more fleshed out and in-depth books!
January 2, 2026
4.00/5.00 overall rating
3.50/5.00 spice rating
Tropes/Kinks: scarecrow, mf, oral, anal, DP
Thoughts:
This would have gotten an even higher rating if the FMC ended up with the MMC. Glad this one had a bit more of an ending than the other books I’ve read by this author. I don’t understand why all of her books so far end with the FMC and MMC separate.
3.50/5.00 spice rating
Tropes/Kinks: scarecrow, mf, oral, anal, DP
Thoughts:
This would have gotten an even higher rating if the FMC ended up with the MMC. Glad this one had a bit more of an ending than the other books I’ve read by this author. I don’t understand why all of her books so far end with the FMC and MMC separate.
January 9, 2026
If the main character liked being with the monster so much, then why didn't she go back to him? I think it would have been a better ending. I didn't care for the story about the cult. It was way too dark for me. I also found it disturbing that the character sleeps with the monster just a few feet from where literal children are buried.
February 25, 2026
Weird
Ok, I knew this book was going to be a little out there, but I guess I didn't realize how out there it was gonna be. It was written well. No typos or grammar errors. Unless I missed it? This was like romanticizing Jeepers Creepers mixed with some cult history. So, yea, a little more weird than I thought, but if this is your jam, rock on! On to the next.
Ok, I knew this book was going to be a little out there, but I guess I didn't realize how out there it was gonna be. It was written well. No typos or grammar errors. Unless I missed it? This was like romanticizing Jeepers Creepers mixed with some cult history. So, yea, a little more weird than I thought, but if this is your jam, rock on! On to the next.
November 30, 2025
Whew!!
This story was amazing. I was locked in from the first page. You gave me just enough to leave me wanting more. Emma and the Scarecrow 🔥🔥 I never knew monsters could be soooo... Ravenous! 10/10 Adrian, you did it again.
This story was amazing. I was locked in from the first page. You gave me just enough to leave me wanting more. Emma and the Scarecrow 🔥🔥 I never knew monsters could be soooo... Ravenous! 10/10 Adrian, you did it again.
December 8, 2025
Great story
I loved the duality of this story. The macabre with the spice. It really made the story feel immersive in a way I haven't experienced before. Would love a part 2 of her getting HIS story.
I loved the duality of this story. The macabre with the spice. It really made the story feel immersive in a way I haven't experienced before. Would love a part 2 of her getting HIS story.
December 14, 2025
Wow
This one was dark, as the author warns. But it was riveting. I like the stories when the mmc’s can speak.
Wish it could have had more books to it. The end was good despite the darkness but would really benefit from a second book.
This one was dark, as the author warns. But it was riveting. I like the stories when the mmc’s can speak.
Wish it could have had more books to it. The end was good despite the darkness but would really benefit from a second book.
December 29, 2025
This is a hilarious and unpredictable short read filled with humor and smut. The story follows a bizarre journey that keeps you laughing, while the character of the Scarecrow adds a surprising layer of depth. After getting what he wants, the Scarecrow explains the entire narrative, giving the story a philosophical twist you wouldn’t expect from such a chaotic tale.
The back story also does remind me of glorivale - I’ll leave it there, so I don’t spoil it for anyone else 😉
It’s weird, funny but keeps you reading 🤔😉.
The back story also does remind me of glorivale - I’ll leave it there, so I don’t spoil it for anyone else 😉
It’s weird, funny but keeps you reading 🤔😉.
January 15, 2026
A deep storyline
Adrian Blue can weave a story. This one was deep and has a dark subject matter. A podcaster was following a story about what happened to a cult back in the 1970’s. To obtain the story she had to share herself with a unique monster. Read On!
Adrian Blue can weave a story. This one was deep and has a dark subject matter. A podcaster was following a story about what happened to a cult back in the 1970’s. To obtain the story she had to share herself with a unique monster. Read On!
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December 8, 2025I sure hope this is an alternate reality where Jonestown doesn’t exist, else she done fucked that lizard scarecrow for nothing.
December 13, 2025
well $h!+
That was both crazy and hot af. i expect no less from AB. This one was a little longer at 80ish pages! As always, I still want more lol
That was both crazy and hot af. i expect no less from AB. This one was a little longer at 80ish pages! As always, I still want more lol
December 23, 2025
Pensé que iban a terminar juntos o se verían nuevamente 😭😭😭
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January 20, 2026
if you’ve got 45min to kill, go for it. I’m not saying it was good, but I was entertained.
January 28, 2026
🤌🏻
That was fantastic. I honestly was more interested in the cult story than the spice 😅 but both were great. DP is always a great bonus to read 🥵
That was fantastic. I honestly was more interested in the cult story than the spice 😅 but both were great. DP is always a great bonus to read 🥵
February 3, 2026
This was a slightly darker story by the author, with a cult-ish storyline and of course her signature spicy paranormal romance.
February 14, 2026
Unusual
This was such an intense and unusual short story. The scarecrows story was also so sad. It's an interesting short story
This was such an intense and unusual short story. The scarecrows story was also so sad. It's an interesting short story
December 23, 2025
I gave it 3⭐️’s Because… yes, Maximus Decimus Meridius- I was in fact- entertained
I had a slight issue picturing the particular monster. Would have loved some further link to the creature and the cause of the investigation (an issue I won’t mention as it’s kinda spoiler-ish)
But it was a short story so I’m just being extra
I had a slight issue picturing the particular monster. Would have loved some further link to the creature and the cause of the investigation (an issue I won’t mention as it’s kinda spoiler-ish)
But it was a short story so I’m just being extra
February 20, 2026
This was so far away from my usual reads, I can’t be clear enough about that!! Monster Romance isn’t my usual vibe at all but you know what, this wasn’t bad!
Banging a scarecrow while he tells you about the cult that used to be on the land is probably not even the most out there book I’ll read this year- actually I know it’s not because I read the rest of this series!!
If you’re wanting something short and spicy and slightly monstrous, this is the book for you!
Banging a scarecrow while he tells you about the cult that used to be on the land is probably not even the most out there book I’ll read this year- actually I know it’s not because I read the rest of this series!!
If you’re wanting something short and spicy and slightly monstrous, this is the book for you!
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