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Books with Bad Boys Turned Good
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items 10 bad boys who transform through love, redemption, and self-discovery. Pick your next read!
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Books that fall into the Young Adult genre.
🖤Bad Boy: Alex Fuentes 🖤Why He’s Bad: A gang member with a dangerous reputation. 🖤Why He Changes: Brittany, his chemistry lab partner, forces him to rethink everything. 🖤A forbidden love story with angst, romance, and redemption.
Perfect Chemistry (A Perfect Chemistry Novel)
🖤Bad Boy: Noah Hutchins 🖤Why He’s Bad: A rebellious foster kid with trust issues. 🖤Why He Changes: Echo Emerson, a girl with her own scars, teaches him to open up. 🖤A deep, emotional romance with trauma, healing, and love.
Pushing the Limits: An Award-winning novel
🖤Bad Boy: Kaidan Rowe 🖤Why He’s Bad: A Nephilim (half-demon) drummer raised to encourage sin. 🖤Why He Changes: Anna, a girl with a pure heart, challenges his beliefs. 🖤A paranormal romance with forbidden love and high stakes.
Sweet Evil (Sweet Evil, 1)
🖤Bad Boy: West Ashby 🖤Why He’s Bad: A cocky football player who hides his pain behind arrogance. 🖤Why He Changes: Maggie, a girl who understands grief, helps him open up. 🖤A small-town romance with heartfelt emotions and strong character growth.
Until Friday Night (Field Party)
🖤Bad Boy: Beau Vincent 🖤Why He’s Bad: Rebellious, reckless, and the town troublemaker. 🖤Why He Changes: Falling for his best friend’s girl forces him to rethink his choices. 🖤A Southern, small-town romance filled with drama and angst.
The Vincent Boys
🖤Bad Boy: Greyson Ballenger 🖤Why He’s Bad: A brooding nobleman with a dark past. 🖤Why He Changes: His love for Hollis forces him to choose between power and his heart. 🖤A royal romance with court intrigue and forbidden love.
The Betrothed
🖤Bad Boy: Day (Daniel Altan Wing) 🖤Why He’s Bad: A rebel fugitive and the Republic’s most wanted criminal. 🖤Why He Changes: June, a military prodigy sent to capture him, starts to question everything. 🖤A dystopian romance with action, suspense, a...
Legend
🖤Bad Boy: Nathan Everets 🖤Why He’s Bad: A rebellious musician with a tragic past. 🖤Why He Changes: Monroe, a girl with her own pain, teaches him that life is worth living. 🖤A deep, emotional romance about love, loss, and second chances.
Boys Like You
🖤Bad Boy: Xander Spence 🖤Why He’s Bad: A rich, arrogant guy who seems too smooth for his own good. 🖤Why He Changes: Caymen, a sarcastic, independent girl who works in her mom’s doll shop, sees past his wealth and into his real struggles. 🖤A light...
The Distance Between Us
🖤Bad Boy: Ty Green 🖤Why He’s Bad: A confident, cocky football player who shakes up the protagonist’s world. 🖤Why He Changes: Jordan, the captain of the football team, challenges him both on and off the field. 🖤A sports romance with a strong femal...
Catching Jordan (Hundred Oaks, 1)
New Adult
🖤Tropes: College romance, underground fighter, opposites attract 🖤The Bad Boy: Travis Maddox — tattooed, temperamental, and infamous on campus 🖤Why It’s Loved: One of the most iconic bad boy romances in NA fiction. Travis is raw and messy, but his...
Beautiful Disaster: A Novel (Series)
🖤Tropes: Hockey romance, fake dating, popular guy/shy girl 🖤The Bad Boy: Garrett Graham — cocky hockey player who seems shallow but has unexpected depth 🖤Why It’s Loved: Garrett might not be a “bad boy” in the leather-jacket-and-motorcycle sense, ...
The Deal
🖤Tropes: Step-siblings, forbidden romance, beach town drama 🖤The Bad Boy: Rush Finlay — rich, moody, and totally off-limits 🖤Why It’s Loved: Rush starts off as cold and cruel, but his chemistry with Blaire reveals a deeply protective and loving si...
Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel
🖤Tropes: Road trip romance, opposites attract, emotional healing 🖤The Bad Boy: Andrew Parrish — mysterious, flirty, a bit reckless 🖤Why It’s Loved: This book is more than just romance—it's a soul-searching journey. Andrew has secrets and pain, but...
The Edge of Never
🖤Tropes: Enemies to lovers, high school-to-college transition, redemption 🖤The Bad Boy: Jared Trent — her tormentor-turned-lover 🖤Why It’s Loved: Jared's transformation is dramatic. He starts off cruel, but Penelope Douglas masterfully unpacks his...
Bully (The Fall Away Series)
🖤Tropes: Sports romance, alpha male, fighter with demons 🖤The Bad Boy: Remington "Remy" Tate — underground boxing champ, moody and magnetic 🖤Why It’s Loved: Remy is volatile and unpredictable, but also deeply romantic and emotionally raw. His vuln...
Real (The REAL series)
🖤Tropes: Second-chance romance, theater school setting, heartbreak and healing 🖤The Bad Boy: Ethan Holt — brooding actor with commitment issues 🖤Why It’s Loved: Told in past/present timelines, this story shows both Ethan’s bad-boy behavior and his...
Bad Romeo (The Starcrossed Series, 1)
🖤Tropes: Southern college football romance, damaged hero, hidden trauma 🖤The Bad Boy: Romeo Prince — star quarterback with a dark past 🖤Why It’s Loved: Romeo is the campus heartthrob with a chip on his shoulder, but his devotion to Molly is swoon-...
Sweet Home (Sweet Home Series)
🖤Tropes: Tattooed bad boy, opposites attract, family trauma 🖤The Bad Boy: Rule Archer — rebellious tattoo artist with a big wall around his heart 🖤Why It’s Loved: Rule is the definition of inked-up, moody, and emotionally distant. But his journey ...
Rule: Opposities Attract
🖤Tropes: Found family, grief and healing, sports romance 🖤The Bad Boy: Jake Andrews — misunderstood, impulsive, and full of heart 🖤Why It’s Loved: Jake isn’t just a party boy—he’s dealing with hidden pain and learning how to open up. 🖤This one hi...
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