A Tangled Web

L.M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), was the pen name of Lucy Maud Montgomery, a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems and 30 essays. Most of the novels were set in Prince Edward Island and locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site-namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.

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The beloved author of Anne of Green Gables tells the classic tale of two remarkable families bound together by an uncommon legacy. Through the years, sixty Darks have married sixty Penhallows. Now the matriarch of the family has left a most unusual inheritance--an old brown jug. For a year the jug works its magic until the family learns of its final secret. A Bantam Starfire Book.