There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... Novel Volume 1 was written by Teren Mikami with illustrations by Eku Takeshima.

Awkward, introverted Amaori Renako is leaving her lonely middle school life behind, determined to become an outgoing and popular high schooler. Glamorous, confident Oduka Mai is Renako’s total opposite: wealthy, carefree, and a literal fashion model. Against the odds, the two girls form an immediate connection.

Renako thinks she may have found the best friend of her dreams…until Mai’s love confession sends her feelings into a tailspin. Renako wants to prove to Mai that being BFFs is better than being girlfriends, but Mai is dead set on convincing Renako that they’re destined to be lovers!

There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... Novel Volume 2 was written by Teren Mikami with illustrations by Eku Takeshima.

High school gal pals Amaori Renako and Oduka Mai battled it out to decide if they’d be friends or lovers…and ended in a tie! Now they’re trying a bit of both at once as “friends with Rena-fits”. Their in-between arrangement could be the relationship of Renako’s dreams, but then Ashigaya High’s gorgeous ice queen Satsuki-san asks her on a date too! Caught between the two prettiest girls in school, what’s an ex-social-misfit to do?!

There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... Novel Volume 3 was written by Teren Mikami with illustrations by Eku Takeshima.

Absolute angel Ajisai-san has an awful argument with her family and decides to decamp to the seaside for the summer. In other words: she’s running away from home! Renako Amaori can’t let this innocent ingenue wander the big, bad world alone. She’s coming along, too! Will their high school hearts and minds be healed by bouts of ping-pong and wholesome spells in the hot springs, or will romantic drama find them, no matter where they go?