Candice "Candy" White Adley's first love was the young, blond, princely Anthony Brown, but the series is better remembered by the majority of Candy fans for her heartbreaking romance with her true love and soul mate, Terence "Terry" GrandChester. A recurrent story arc in the series is the "Prince of the Hill", a mysterious boy Candy met as a child and never saw again. His identity is revealed in the last pages of the manga.

A beautiful and tear jerking story about love, friendship and how Candy overcomes the many tragic obstacles in her life.

This story is about a girl, Candy, who is a orphan. She is a nice and optimistic girl and she has a warm heart. When she was a child, she lived in an orphanage called Pony's Home. She had a good friend called Annie. And she met the "Prince of the Hill" who is a important person in her life, on the hill behind the orphanage.

She was adopted by the Leagan's family. What's awaiting her are the bad-hearted Neil and his sister, Eliza. One day, in the rose garden, she met a boy, who is identical to the "Prince of the Hill" who she had met in her childhood. The boy is called Anthony. Thereafter, a fantastic story that she has never expected begins.

Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 1977 (tied with ).