Penelope Snow is a beauty, but with her good looks come unwanted attention. Fleeing from a scandal in her home town, not of her making, Penelope takes a job as a lady's maid to a diva actress. Penelope purposely wears dark ill-fitting cloths, and keeps her eyes down so people won't notice her, but her dowdy clothes don't fool Titus Kingsley, Texas Ranger. He is taken with Penelope the first time he sees her, but is on a mission and can't stop to talk with her. Only a few days later he finds her at his father's home for retired cowboys. She had been cast out by her employer because of jealousy, and needs to lay low for a while. The seven kindly old cowboys are happy to take her in, and Titus increasingly feels a need to watch over her, but can they keep her safe from the wily and evil diva?
This is an odd but charming rewriting of Snow White in a old western setting. It isn't any great work of literature, but kind of fun because it was so silly. Witemeyer always has a strong Christian message, and I tend to read Karen Witemeyer when I have been having high levels of stress and need something light and uplifting. In all Witemeyer's stories, the two main characters
each get to the point where they have to let go of their own will and turn things over to God. It is a bit trite, but I knew that message would be in the book and that is what I was looking for when I chose this. It didn't disappoint. (2023, 352p)
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