My Secret Deal with the Bad Boy Captain
by Yan Stellar
🖤 How high is your chance of falling in love with an up-cocky and reckless boy?
- Genre
- YA/Teen
- Chapters
- 100
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 6.8K
18+Review by Julia ·
Lily Reilly lives to please others. She strives to get good grades, please her boyfriend, and keep everyone around her happy. However, such existence can’t last long. A young woman is on edge anyway, but when the one thing she trusted most collapses, Lily’s world goes silent. She can’t escape her thoughts.
Suddenly, she is given a chance to escape. Jake Roberts, a reckless boy who lives like tomorrow isn’t guaranteed, enters Lily’s life. He makes her a promise: he will change her life for good within 3 months. He provides Lily with rules she must follow.
So, Lily starts feeling better, and her feelings towards Jake grow. She must make a wise decision whether to let everything go and follow her heart, or be careful around a bad boy like Jake.
Themes Discussed in My Secret Deal with the Bad Boy Captain
👩❤️👨 Bad boy-good girl relationships
🚀 Changing life
🏫 School romance
👧🏻 Coming of age identity
Reasons to Read My Secret Deal with the Bad Boy Captain
💔 An emotional, character-driven story
🐣 Personal growth of a teen
🔥 Catchy “Opposites attract” trope
📚 Perfect read for young adults
Meet The Main Characters
♀️ Lily
Lily is a shy teen who is used to pleasing everyone and putting everyone first before herself. Soon her life becomes miserable and empty until she meets Jake, a guy who is the complete opposite of her. Agreeing to follow his rules and tips, a young woman’s life begins to change. Lily must decide whether she is willing to take a risk and fall in love with a bad boy.
♂️ Jake
Jake is someone you called reckless and who doesn’t care if tomorrow comes. He is arrogant, and this is what pulls Lily towards him. Seeing Lily struggling, he offers her an experiment – to follow his rule and see if her life changes. Being attractive and confident, he leaves Lily no choice but to fall in love.
💕Three months. One bucket list. And a love that might change her life forever. My Secret Deal with the Bad Boy Captainis one of the catchy YA romances you will want to read again and again.
My Secret Deal with the Bad Boy Captain synopsis
Ashley Waters had a plan—keep her grades up, keep her boyfriend happy, and try not to disappoint anyone. But when the one thing she thought was safe shatters in front of her, she finds herself on a bridge, ready to disappear. That’s when Jake Roberts shows up—cocky, reckless, and entirely unexpected. In three months, he promises, he’ll change her life. With a bucket list as their map and a hundred rules to break, Lily starts to feel something she hasn’t in years: alive. But healing isn’t always linear, and falling in love with a boy like Jake might just be the riskiest item on her list.
Read My Secret Deal with the Bad Boy Captain – Chapter 1: The Start of the End
Summer had barely started, and I already felt like I was falling apart.
While everyone else at school was buzzing about road trips and sleepovers, all I could think about was Travis. My boyfriend. My safe space. The guy I had been with for three years.
Or at least, he used to be that guy.
Lately, something had changed. He wasn’t texting back as fast. He bailed on plans. And when we were together… it was like I wasn’t really there. I noticed. Of course I noticed. But I didn’t say anything. That’s not what I do. I kept smiling, kept pretending, kept telling myself that maybe he just needed space.
So I decided to fix it — the only way I knew how.
“I’m gonna show up at his house,” I told Erin, my voice barely a whisper as we sat under the tree behind school.
Erin gave me a look. “Wait, like… unannounced?”
I nodded and held up the little paper bag I’d packed. “I got his favorite snacks, and these movie tickets I found online. Thought we could go out. Just the two of us. Like before.”
She frowned, chewing her lip. “Lil… I dunno. He’s been acting weird for a while now.”
“I know,” I admitted. “That’s why I’m doing this. He just needs a reminder. We’re still us.”
Erin didn’t push it. Maybe because she knew I wouldn’t back down even if she tried.
I didn’t tell my mom, either. That would’ve turned into a disaster.
“Dating ruins girls,” she always said. “Focus on your future, not on football boys.”
So I told her I was studying at Erin’s. Then I slipped out the door with my heart racing and hope swelling in my chest.
Tropes
- Week to Strong
- Secret dating
- Young Adult
- Bad boy
- Suspense
- School Romance
- Steamy