4/28/2026
New Print Release: Breaking Up Was the Plan, the Duke Falling For the Villainess Was Not! Vol.1

We’re delighted to announce Breaking Up Was the Plan, the Duke Falling For the Villainess Was Not! Vol.1 is now available in print for $14.99! Grace had a plan. A nice, simple plan: seduce the icy duke, make him dump her, and live happily ever after. It should have been simple. She did reincarnate as the villainess of her favorite novel, after all. But she didn't account for one thing: making the duke fall so deeply in love with her that he won't let go! What lengths will she go to stop her simple plan from falling apart? What lengths will he go to keep her? Pick up a copy to find out!

The plan was simple: play the foil, get dumped, live happily ever after. Now? The duke is head over heels for me, the world’s on the brink of war—and I’m going to die.

I was reincarnated into the pages of my favorite romance novel. Not as the bright, beloved heroine, but as the cruel, grasping villainess, a mere stepping stone in the story. My only job is to dump the “Cold-Hearted Duke” so he can meet his true love. Fail, and war breaks out. I die. Nobody gets their happily ever after.

Easy, right?

Except playing a vindictive noblewoman when I’d been an ordinary woman in my past life is harder than it looks. Because if that’s the case, why—at the end of it all—is the duke holding me close, murmuring into my ear, “Grace… I will never, ever let you go”?!

Breaking Up Was the Plan, the Duke Falling For the Villainess Was Not! Vol.1 is now available digitally worldwide for $7.99 and in paperback for $14.99. Get your copy today!

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