Book description
Increasingly desperate poverty after her beloved father's suicide
forces a crisis for Callista Stanford, for vicious rent collector Oswin
Slade will accept only the girl's body in payment for the rent due.
Repulsed by his advances, Callista postpones the evil day until it is
too late. Homeless and destitute, Callista finds refuge with Abigail and
Daniel Roberts, a kindly couple, potters by trade. Taught by her father
to appreciate beauty, Callista proves to have a feeling for the clay and
with Daniel's help comes to be mistress of the Leabrook Pottery. But
there is no happy ending yet; an unseen enemy, a depraved woman, lurks
in the shadows, intent on harm to the pauper's child.
