Love Without Labels Series by Lexi Amber, Bec Benson

BlakeWhen my parents threatened to cut me off if I wasn’t married by the time I turned thirty, I thought finding a wife would be easy. But apparently, I’m not the best at dating, and almost two years later, I’m still very single.My birthday is coming up fast, and unless I want to give up the comfortable lifestyle I’m used to, I need to find someone willing to settle down with quickly. I’m desperate and out of ideas, until my best friend suggests I apply for a new reality dating show... moreBlakeWhen my parents threatened to cut me off if I wasn’t married by the time I turned thirty, I thought finding a wife would be easy. But apparently, I’m not the best at dating, and almost two years later, I’m still very single.My birthday is coming up fast, and unless I want to give up the comfortable lifestyle I’m used to, I need to find someone willing to settle down with quickly. I’m desperate and out of ideas, until my best friend suggests I apply for a new reality dating show. Now I’m a contestant on the first season of Love Without Labels, a completely blind reality dating show where we talk to each other through distorted voice technology and texts. No photos, ages, genders, or even names will be revealed until we decide to move in together. I knew all of this when I signed up, and even though I’m straight, I assumed it would be easy to tell if I was talking to a woman.Apparently, I was wrong. Liam It’s my final season working for the family farm before I take over for my dad. I’m ready to find someone to build a real future with, but I know they aren’t in my small hometown.Love Without Labels feels like the perfect chance to find my person. I’ve never cared much about labels anyway. All I want is someone who’s loyal, honest, and I can share my dreams with.As we narrow down our matches, there’s only one person I can imagine a future with. Someone who listens, makes me laugh, and feel wanted in a way I haven’t in a long time.But while I’ve kept my mind open about who I’m falling for, apparently, he’s been convinced I was a woman this entire time.Will he still want to continue building on the connection we have now that he knows the truth? Or was this relationship doomed before it could really even begin? less

Kieran Jace Ryan is such a cliché. The popular star baseball player who can get any girl he wants. He’s also a close-minded jerk who can’t seem to understand why a guy would ever want to wear makeup. He won’t leave me alone, claiming that what I choose to wear is distracting, that I’m a freak for being different. His bullying is annoying, and yeah, I might have been afraid once or twice, but I won’t let it get to me. I won’t change who I am for anyone... moreKieran Jace Ryan is such a cliché. The popular star baseball player who can get any girl he wants. He’s also a close-minded jerk who can’t seem to understand why a guy would ever want to wear makeup. He won’t leave me alone, claiming that what I choose to wear is distracting, that I’m a freak for being different. His bullying is annoying, and yeah, I might have been afraid once or twice, but I won’t let it get to me. I won’t change who I am for anyone. And despite what he might say in front of his friends, Jace doesn’t actually seem to hate me as much as he claims. Especially when we’re alone and I’m on my knees for him. Jace I have a lot of regrets in life, but the way things blew up with Kieran Delaney thirteen years ago is at the very top of my list. I’m sure he hasn’t thought about me since then, but not a day goes by that I haven’t wondered what might have been. It’s so easy to pretend like he’s still in my life when I can watch all of his videos, like all of his posts. Who knew he’d become so famous for the very thing I used to bully him for? I signed up for Love Without Labels, a label-free dating show, in an attempt to finally get over him. When they took away my phone, I thought it would finally help me move on. I found someone new, someone who made me laugh and forget about Kieran. Someone who I thought I could have a future with. But when I met him in person, I realized it’s been him the whole time. The man I hurt all of those years ago. The man I’ve loved in silence ever since. He might think things are fake between us, but I know this is my one chance to prove I’m not the same guy who broke his heart. The Reality of Wanting My Bully is a 137k-word, dual-POV romance told in two parts. It’s based on real-life bullying set in 2010-2012. It is NOT a dark romance. It’s a story about the challenges of growing up without positive support, healing, forgiveness, and realizing that the people we were at eighteen aren’t the people we’re destined to become. less