Cover of Backwards to Oregon

Backwards to Oregon

Jae

The Oregon Series #1

historical romance(4k)

A woman disguised as a man marries a brothel survivor — and they travel 2,000 miles to Oregon together.

Content Warnings
sexual assault (past or present)

Description

"Luke" Hamilton has always been sure that she'd never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet and take her away to begin a new, respectable life. But now they find themselves married and on the way to Oregon in a covered wagon, with two thousand miles ahead of them.

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