Anne's children were almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla.
No one could resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile.

Rilla, almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the
Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome Kenneth Ford. But
undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside becomes
endangered by a far-off war. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home an orphaned
newborn in a soup tureen. She is swept into a drama that tests her courage and leaves her
changed forever.