Down to the Potter's House

I received a free electronic ARC of this Christian novel from Netgalley, Annette Valentine, and Norman James, publisher. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. I have read this novel of my own volition, and this review reflects my honest opinion of this work. This is part of a series but completely stand-alone. With a flashback to 1922, our story begins in Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky in early 1930 in the Maxwell family home, the 560-acre Hillbound Tobacco Farm. Elkton is facing another of several years of extreme drought, the unfolding Depression, and the impending death of their matriarch, Annabelle Maxwell. The elder two daughters of the Maxwell family are married, Emma Rivers to a tobacco farmer named Elmer a couple of hours away by train, and Millicent Carver to Jim, owner of the grocery/hardware store in Elkton. Of the younger two, Henry is basically running the Hillbound tobacco fields with the help of Moe Lee and his family, children of one of Grandfather Maxwell's slave, and Gracie is looking at the last two years of high school before she attends teacher's college. It looks like the children of Senator Robert Maxwell and wife Annabelle are settled into their futures. Until the neighbor, Felix Delaney marries Francine Willoughby. Francine has a way of interfering with all sorts of plans. And enticing all sorts of men... It is possible the family will not be able to protect themselves against her machinations. Even with the help of the Potter.