"How to Make a Pot in 14 Easy Lessons" is a novel of fire; fire in the kiln and fire in the heart. Joe is the potter and he lives in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. He's fallen in love with an actress from England called Lucy and he wants her to marry him. Lucy has other ideas though. She wants to keep chasing the stage, not get stuck in some pottery shop in the middle of nowhere. However, the beauty of the setting, the cast of quirky characters that come in and out of the shop and the strength of Joe's love eventually change her mind. Which is when Joe, himself, starts having...

While the community gathers to celebrate Joe and Lucy's marriage in the winter magic of the Upper Skagit Valley, there is one person who refuses to feel the love; their neighbor, Hilda. She is determined to mar their happiness with a vindictive property line dispute, and before the ink is dry on their marriage certificate, they find themselves embroiled in a series of stomach-churning ordeals that they must overcome in order to keep their home, and their pottery business, viable. All of this they endure while trying to reason with Hilda. But when she sabotages the ancient apple tree growing...