Anne on the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery... She loved Gilbert, always loved him! She knew that now, and she knew that she would not be able to expel him from her life with less torture than cutting off her right hand and throwing it away. But she knew all this too late, too late even to console him and be near him in his last moments. If she weren't so blind and foolish, she would have the right to go to him now. But he will never know that she loves him. He will leave this life thinking that she does not care about him.” More adventures loom on the horizon as Anne Shirley packs her bags, bid farewell to her childhood, and leaves for the University of Redmond. Accompanied by her old friend Prissy Grant, who is waiting for her in the bustling city of Kingsport, and her new, spoiled friend, Philippa Gordon, Anne turns the page on her simple country life in Avonlea, and discovers a new life full of surprises... such as one of the worst marriage proposals imaginable, the sale of her first story, and a tragedy that teaches her... A painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when she and her friends move into an antique bungalow, and a mischievous black cat steals her heart, until she learns that Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too! Suddenly she must decide whether she is ready for love.