All of these conflicts and storylines weave together and build off of each other. Luke is hiding her gender, Rika is hiding her name and history, and Amy is hiding her sexuality.
Hidden identity is a theme I love and here it was explored so well. Along with all of that, Luke still hasn’t revealed to her two daughters that she is a woman, despite them both being old enough to keep the secret. Rika comes to Oregon pretending to be her her dead friend to be a mail order bride to a man who works on the farm. She also feels an attraction to women that she struggles with but is able to keep locked down – that is until she meets Rika. Amy has grown up under the love of her parents and given much more freedom than most women in her age. Hidden Truths is the sequel set 17 years later and focuses more on Luke and Nora’s eldest daughter Amy and her romance with newcomer to the horse ranch, Rika.
I loved the story of Luke and Nora in Backwards to Oregon by Jae, in which a woman in disguise as a man marries another woman in what starts as a fake relationship to help each other on the long Oregon trial, turns into a romantic, slow burn favorite of mine.
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