Hidden View depicts a couple determined to economically persevere on a multi-generational farm. When a prodigal brother reappears, threatening ownership of the land, the marriage frays as the woman draws amorously nearer to the husband's brother. The novel unfolds as Fern struggles with whether to stay or go, and how to raise her small daughter within the tightening weave of a collapsing relationship. The book twines love of the Vermont landscape - both harsh and beautiful - with a woman's quest to determine her fate.