Breaking Up Was the Plan, the Duke Falling For the Villainess Was Not! Vol.2

Try, try, try as she might, Grace just can’t shake off the devotion of her so-called “cold-hearted” duke.

Grace Saintsbury, reborn as the villainess in her favorite novel, knows she must betray and break up with Duke Zane—the story’s male lead—if she wants to prevent a looming war. But her schemes are foiled, her intentions laid bare, and Zane only clings to her more fiercely each time she tries to escape. As if that weren’t enough, her former ally in these breakup plots, the notorious playboy Count Gardner, has suddenly turned his charm on her. With a rose in hand and a bold confession—“Won’t you be mine instead?”—he upends her plans entirely. Caught between love and a hard place, Grace struggles to navigate this twisted new version of the story she thought she knew.