Some things break so they can be made new.

Archaeologist Yael Bar-Am has spent her life piecing together what history left behind, fragments of clay, layers of stone, the quiet proof that nothing is ever truly lost. Then Captain Daniel Carter arrives at her dig, an American Army Reserve officer sent to document cultural sites before conflict swallows them, and for one golden afternoon before the holiday, the ancient land feels only beautiful, not dangerous.

On Yom Kippur, the sirens change everything.

As war erupts across the Sinai and the Golan, Yael's brother is called to the front, her family's world fractures overnight, and Daniel is pulled from the sidelines of history into the middle of it. Amid the chaos of a nation fighting for its survival, Yael and Daniel discover a love as unlikely, and as stubborn, as the ruins she spends her life restoring.

Set against the real upheaval of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Who's the Potter, Who's the Clay is a story about what survives when everything is broken: faith, family, and a love strong enough to be reshaped by fire.

Perfect for readers of faith-inflected historical fiction, wartime romance, and stories rooted in Israel's history and archaeology.