The Potter's Daughter by Daniel Arthur Smith

After a promise to her dying mother, Abby Bellen, the estranged daughter of an aging ceramic artist, feels obligated to return to her home on the lake to put her father’s life in order. Years have past since she fled the home of her youth and a past she would rather forget. Now Abby has no choice other than confrontation as the long buried rift that exists between them surfaces and they must together face the failures of their misspent relationship and she discovers, with the help of new romance Mitch Carlson, what she needs to make herself whole.