True Love Fades Away When the Contract Ends – One Star in the Night Sky (Novel)

True Love Fades Away When the Contract Ends – One Star in the Night Sky (Novel)

In this romantic shojo/josei period drama, a noblewoman and nobleman pretend to be in love to avoid getting married! And don’t miss the manga, also from Seven Seas.

Fiona isn’t one to live an everyday noble life. Instead, she finds more fulfillment in working hard. But when she overhears her father planning an arranged marriage for her to her childhood friend, she’s desperate to stop it! Luckily, she meets Giles, the son of an earl and the town darling who’s also hoping to avoid marriage. Together they hatch the perfect plan to thwart their parents’ matchmaking: by pretending to be soulmates! A flawless plan that can’t possibly go wrong. Right…?

Biographical Notes:

Kosuzu Kobato is a writer in Japan best known for light novels including The Apothecary Witch Turned Divorce Agent, I’d Rather Have a Cat than a Harem!, Making Jam in the Woods, and True Love Fades Away When the Contract Ends.

Murasaki Shido is an artist in Japan best known for the illustrations in the light novel series The Invisible Wallflower Marries an Upstart Aristocrat After Getting Dumped for Her Sister! and the manga version/character designs of True Love Fades Away When the Contract Ends.

Title Notes:

Seven Seas is publishing both the light novel and manga version of this series.

Popular genre of shojo/josei, romance, period piece, nobility, fake relationship, Perfect for fans of Accomplishments of the Duke’s Daughter, 7th Time Loop, The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen, Though I Am an Inept Villainess, My Next Life as a Villainess, Snow White with the Red Hair.

Color inserts and roughly a dozen black-and-white manga-style illustrations complement 250-350 pages of prose.

This title has crossover appeal with YA audiences (rated Teen 13+).

More details on Kosuzu Kobato & Murasaki Shido:

Kosuzu Kobato’s Twitter account

Murasaki Shido’s Twitter account

Murasaki Shido’s Pixiv account

Publisher’s Twitter account