Gabriella has never spent a summer in Italy like this one.
Remaining means giving up all she's known and loved . . . and
leaving means forfeiting what she's come to know--and love
itself.
Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the
Bentarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives with
their parents, famed Etruscan scholars, among the romantic hills.
In Book One of the River of Time series, Gabi and Lia are stuck
among the rubble of medieval castles in rural Tuscany on yet
another hot, boring, and dusty archeological site . . . until Gabi
places her hand atop a handprint in an ancient tomb and finds
herself in fourteenth-century Italy. And worse yet, in the middle
of a fierce battle between knights of two opposing forces.
And thus she comes to be rescued by the knight-prince Marcello
Falassi, who takes her back to his father's castle--a castle Gabi
has seen in ruins in another life. Suddenly Gabi's summer in Italy
is much, much more interesting. But what do you do when your knight
in shining armor lives, literally, in a different world?
"Lisa Bergren has stirred up an exciting and memorable tale that
teen readers should thoroughly enjoy!"--Melody Carlson, author of
the Diary of a Teenage Girl and True Colors series
What do you do when your knight in shining armor lives,
literally, in a different world?
Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the
Betarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives among the
romantic hills with their archaelogist parents. Stuck among the
rubble of the medieval castles in rural Tuscany, on yet another
hot, dusty archaeological site, Gabi and Lia are bored out of their
minds . . . until Gabi places her hand atop a handprint in an
ancient tomb and finds herself in fourteenth-century Italy. And
worse yet, in the middle of a fierce battle between knights of two
opposing forces.
Suddenly Gabi's summer in Italy is much, much more interesting.
Lisa T. Bergren is the best-selling, award-winning author of more than thirty books that have sold more than two million copies. A former publishing executive, she now splits her time writing, editing, and dreaming of her next trip to Italy while parenting her three children with her husband, Tim. They live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.