Kilmeny of the Orchard

'Kilmeny of the Orchard' is a sweet and moving romance from the author of the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. Eric Marshall is all that a well-brought-up young man should be. Handsome, steadfast, and full of ambition, he is expected to expand the Marshall & Company Empire and to marry a woman suitable to replace his mother in Nova Scotia's finest circles. Eric has a bright future in the family business and has taken the two-month teaching post on Prince Edward Island only as a favor to a sick friend. Then fate, which has been more than generous to Eric, throws in his path a beautiful, mysterious girl named Kilmeny Gordon. Mute since birth, she lives sequestered at home with her aunt and uncle who the town considers odd. Soon after that first meeting, a friendship between the two begins to bloom towards love. Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, the setting for Anne of Green Gables. Anne of Green Gables, the first in a series of Anne books by Montgomery, was published in 1908 to immediate success and continues to be a perennial favorite.