Fairest of Heart

Title: Fairest of Heart

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.