Greetings from Texas! I'm Karen Witemeyer, and I love word games, which is why I'm looking forward to some title acrostic fun in this post. But first . . . a little background on my story. CLOAKED IN BEAUTY is a sweet western romance filled with fairy-tale flair. Think Little Red Riding Hood meets Sleeping Beauty in an 1800's Texas setting. For more story details, see the title acrostic below.
C – Courageous Pinkerton hero
L – Leads a reclusive, missing heroine
O – On a clandestine
A – Adventure,
K – Kindling romance as they
E – Evade
D – Danger and race to claim her
I – Inheritance for
N – Noble purposes
B – Before her
E – Evil,
A – Avaricious
U – Uncle
T – Takes her life and forces her family to
Y – Yield to his despicable machinations.
Texas Ever After #3
A Christian Western Historical Romance Fairy Tale Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty
Trust no one in the shadows of the piney woods . . .
Letty Hood has spent the last fifteen years of her life hidden away with her grandmother in the backwoods of east Texas to escape the deadly schemes of an uncle who wants her dead. Now, with her twenty-first birthday on the horizon, she is forced to accept the escort of a stranger and return to Houston in secret so she can claim a birthright that will make her one of the wealthiest women in Texas. If she lives long enough to inherit.
Pinkerton agent Philip Carmichael has one duty: get the Radcliffe heiress home alive. Expecting a spoiled girl, Philip is surprised to encounter a woman of rare strength with a kind soul and keen wit. As they journey together, Letty's resilience wins his admiration, breaking through his hardened cynicism. Yet the threat to her survival grows more menacing with every mile, and Philip fears that keeping Letty out of harm's way may be just as impossible as keeping her out of his heart.
Romance | Christian Historical [Bethany House Publishers, On Sale: December 17, 2024, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780764240430 / eISBN: 9781493448173]
After growing up in California, Karen moved to Texas to attend Abilene Christian University where she earned bachelor and master's degrees in Psychology. It was also there that she met and married her own Texas hero. He roped her in good, for she has lived in Texas ever since. In fact, she fell so in love with this rugged land of sweeping sunsets and enduring pioneer spirit, that she incorporates it into the pages of her novels, setting her stories in the small towns of a state that burgeoned into greatness in the mid- to late1800s.
A life-long bookworm, Karen is living her dream by writing novels. Her books have consistently hit bestseller lists and have garnered numerous awards. When not writing, she loves to pester her adult children, play board games, and cross-stitch intricate patterns reminiscent of the historical eras present in her stories.
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