Fall for the Icy Duke This Winter with Cross Infinite World's Acquisition of Breaking Up Was the Plan, the Duke Falling For the Villainess Was Not! Light Novel Series

REDDING, CA (10/30/2025) – Cross Infinite World is delighted to announce the acquisition of Breaking Up Was the Plan, the Duke Falling For the Villainess Was Not! by Kotoko and Ataka, a romantic comedy light novel series about Grace, a normal woman who was reincarnated as the villainess of her favorite novel. All she has to do is break up with the icy duke to get her happy ending, but that's easier said than done! See the silly lengths she'll go to make the duke fall for her then dump him!

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 will be available digitally worldwide on December 31st, 2025 for $7.99. It will be available in paperback for $14.99 at a later date. You can pre-order your copy through Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FYCYT3VQ 

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