The Trap I Did Not Set: An Isekai Genderbender Regency Romance

By D Abraham and D Gemini

He woke up as the villainess. Unfortunately, the duke already knows she's lying.

Elliot Hale was having a perfectly ordinary night until he fell asleep reading a Regency romance.

He woke up inside the novel.

Worse, he's become Lady Anna Claine, the beautiful villainess destined to die in a spectacular downfall.

Elliot knows exactly what happens next.

So he makes a simple plan: do absolutely nothing.

No seducing the duke.
No helping his new family with their conspiracy.
No stealing military secrets.
No falling in love.

It should be easy.

Except Anna wasn't merely a villainess.

She was running a sophisticated honey trap against Duke Lucien Blackwood, the kingdom's most dangerous military commander. Her family expects Elliot to continue the operation, win Lucien's trust, secure an engagement, and help bring him down from within.

There is just one problem.

Lucien already knows Anna is lying.

The terrifyingly observant duke has spent months studying her every move. And now the woman he thought he understood has suddenly become awkward, honest, suspiciously uninterested in manipulating him...

And increasingly impossible to resist.

Elliot is desperately trying to survive a story he has already read.

Lucien is determined to discover what changed.

And somewhere between secret conspiracies, Regency balls, midnight conversations, jealous dukes, and one catastrophically inconvenient attraction, Elliot begins to realize the most dangerous trap in the entire novel may not be the one his family set for Lucien.

It may be the one he never meant to set at all.

The Trap I Didn't Set is a humorous GenderBender Regency Isekai Romance featuring a villainess who knows the plot, a suspicious duke who knows she's lying, secret conspiracies, slow-burn romance, and a hero who discovers that surviving the story might be considerably harder than falling in love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HPJZT1DY
• ISBN13: 9798165952470
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"