Series: Texas Ever After #1
Author: Karen Witemeyer
Publisher: Bethany House
Genre: Historical Fiction, Fairy Tale retelling, Christian Fiction, Western
Source: Own
My Review:
Fairest of Heart is the first of Karen Witemeyer's Texas Ever After series. With the stories being fairy tale retellings, they don't need to be read in any particular order.
Read for:
- Western Snow White Retelling
- found family
- danger
- love
- 7 drovers (not dwarfs)
- Doc
- clever dialogue
- polly sunshine
With similarities to the original Snow White, it was fun to see a Texas-based, western-style retelling! This story has many original elements as well.
★★★/5
Synopsis (Goodreads):
Beauty has been nothing but a curse to Penelope
Snow. When she becomes a personal maid for a famous actress whose troupe
is leaving Chicago to tour the West, she hides her figure beneath
shapeless dresses and keeps her head down. But she still manages to
attract the wrong attention, leaving her prospects in tatters--and her
jealous mistress plotting her demise.
After his brother lost his
life over a woman, Texas ranger Titus Kingsley has learned to expect the
worst from women and is rarely disappointed. So when a young woman
found in suspicious circumstances takes up residence with the seven old
drovers living at his grandfather's ranch, Titus is determined to keep a
close eye on her.
With a promotion hanging in the balance, Titus
is assigned to investigate a robbery case tied to Penelope's acting
troupe. The evidence points to her guilt, but Titus's heart divines a
different truth--one that might just get Penelope killed.
An
enchanting Western take on the classic Snow White fairy tale, Fairest of
Heart will sweep you away from once upon a time to happily ever after.
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