Pauper's Child

Increasingly desperate poverty after her beloved father's suicide forces a crisis for Callista Stanford. Homeless and destitute, she finds refuge with a kindly couple, potters by trade. Taught by her father to appreciate beauty, Callista proves to have a feeling for the clay and 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.