Publisher's Synopsis
Young Philippa Cranley is living a lie. Her tyrannical father, Archer, has forced her to masquerade as a man in order to comply with the terms of her maternal grandfather's will, and enable him to inherit the glassworks. By threatening her fragile mother with imprisonment in a mental institution, he forces Philippa to become Philip. To increase her humiliation, Archer Cranley forces "Philip" to do a stint in the glassworks, putting her in the path of rough co-workers and dangerous machinery. She finds herself befriended by Joshua Fairley, whose pity is aroused by the gentle "lad". But he soon finds himself tormented by the fact that his feelings for "Philip" are more than just pity.
