Good Girls Books in Order
Part ofHolly Renee Books in OrderFind the Good Girls books in order by Holly Renee, with short summaries, character connections, series background, and easy starting-point advice.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
3 books
Where Good Girls Go To Die
by Holly Renee
2017
Livy comes home years after Parker James broke her heart, only to end up working beside him every day. He is still her brother's best friend, still off-limits, and still the one man she cannot forget.
Where Bad Boys are Ruined
by Holly Renee
2018
Charlie is opening her bakery and trying to stay focused, until the tattooed bad boy next door keeps getting under her skin. Brandon is exactly the kind of risk she should avoid, which only makes him harder to resist.
Where Bad Girls Go to Fall
by Holly Renee
2018
Staci lives by a strict no-feelings rule, and Mason is supposed to be just as committed to keeping things casual. One impulsive message changes the game, and suddenly the biggest threat is caring too much.
Series background & context
The Good Girls series takes a small-town romance setup and roughs it up a little. These books live around a close friend group, a tattoo shop, and the kind of hometown where old love can wait for years and still blow everything apart the second the right person walks back in. The stories are sexy, emotional, and full of people who act tough long before they are honest.
Where Good Girls Go To Die opens the series with Livy and Parker. She comes home after years away and ends up face to face with the brother's best friend who broke her heart and never really let go of it either. That second-chance setup gives the whole series its emotional foundation. The past matters here, and so does the way love can turn into resentment without ever stopping completely.
From there the books widen the circle. Where Bad Girls Go to Fall turns to Staci and Mason, two characters who both prefer to act like feelings are optional until chemistry and proximity make that impossible. Where Bad Boys are Ruined shifts toward a sweeter but still steamy contrast, pairing tattooed bad-boy energy with a heroine opening a bakery next door. Because the characters overlap, each romance adds more texture to the same world instead of starting over from scratch.
These books like messy people.
What keeps the series moving is the mix of tenderness and edge. Renee uses familiar romance tropes, brother's best friend, second chance, friends to lovers, opposites attract, but she gives them a little more bite. The men are not polished. The women are not interested in being neatly sorted into good or bad. The titles play with that idea on purpose. The so-called good girls are not passive, and the bad boys usually have more heart than their reputations suggest.
If you want interconnected contemporary romances with strong chemistry, tattoos, small-town baggage, and a cast that keeps drifting in and out of each other's lives, The Good Girls is a solid place to start. It is best read in order, because Livy, Parker, Mason, Staci, Brandon, and Charlie all feel more real once you have watched their friendships and loyalties build across the full trilogy.
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