Once Upon a Time (Liz Braswell) Books in Order

Liz Braswell's corner of the Once Upon a Time line goes back to the beginning of her publishing career. The series itself is a shelf of standalone YA fairy-tale retellings by different writers, so there is no running cast or shared plot to catch up on. Each book takes one familiar story and rebuilds it as a novel with a teenage heroine, a stronger sense of place, and a little more danger.

Braswell's entry is Snow.

Published under the pen name Tracy Lynn, Snow reworks Snow White through Jessica, a neglected young duchess whose life turns truly dangerous when her father remarries. Instead of staying in a fairy-tale forest, Jessica flees to London, where she moves through crowded streets, false names, and a makeshift circle of outsiders who become her found family. That shift in setting is the whole point. The story keeps the bones of the old tale, but the mood is more urban, wary, and grounded.

What makes this version feel like early Braswell is the question sitting underneath the retelling. What happens after the story stops being neat? What does a girl do when rescue is not simple, home is not safe, and trust has to be earned? The romance is there, but so are class tension, survival, and the uneasy pull between who Jessica was raised to be and who she becomes once she is on her own.

Once Again is useful background for this page because it republishes Snow alongside Cameron Dokey's Beauty Sleep. It is less a sequel than a later two-in-one volume, which means readers can either start with Snow on its own or pick up Once Again if they like paired fairy-tale retellings in one book. Either way, Braswell's contribution remains self-contained. You do not need to read a larger saga, memorize lore, or follow a strict order.

The tone of this branch of Once Upon a Time is romantic fantasy with a modern YA heartbeat. The language is accessible, the stakes are personal, and the old story is there to be bent, not copied scene for scene. If you already know Braswell from Disney's Twisted Tales, this is an interesting earlier stop, the place where you can see her getting comfortable with the idea that one change in a famous story can open up everything.