A couple of days and futile searches later, she finds out that the Paratores, the enemies of the Forelli’s and whose leader pointed his sword on her when she arrived, have her sister. With Marcello’s help she tries to find her sister, so she can go back to her own time, since they can only travel when both of their hands are on the wall painting. He takes her with him to his castle, but not everyone is glad she arrived… Fortunately, she is saved by the leader of the other group, the handsome Marcello Forelli.

The fighting knights notice her a second later and one of them goes to her, with his sword pointing at her, asking if she is a witch, because of her peculiar clothing. As she climbs out of the tombs, she actually sees two groups of knights fighting! At first she thinks it’s a play they are practicing for, untill one of the knights dies and she knows she just went back in time. Then she hears sounds of sword fighting coming from outside the tomb. When a shocked Gabi rips her hand of the wall painting to grab Lia, she’s suddenly alone in the tomb…. When they do sneak into one of them, they discover a peculiar wall painting of two hands. The hands are the same size as the hands of Gabi and Lia, they even feel warm when they touch them! But when Gabi and Lia have their hands on the wall painting at the same time, they suddenly see the trees outside shrink and grow again. Gabi and her little sister Lia would love to watch how the inside of the tombs looks like, which haven’t been seen by human eyes for centuries, but they are not allowed to do so before everything has been recorded. Gabi’s mother is an archaeologist, who travels with her daughters through Italy in search of Etruscan burial grounds and her mother just found a new, very important one. Stuck on yet another hot, dusty dig, they are bored out of their minds… until they place their hands atop handprints in an ancient tomb and find themselves catapulted into the Fourteenth Century and in the middle of a fierce battle between knights bent on killing one another. Most American teens want an Italian vacation, but the Betarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives there with their archaeologist parents. In Waterfall, American teenager Gabi Betarrini accidently finds herself in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Tags: Young Adult, Time Travel, Romance, Historical

Waterfall by Lisa Tawn Bergren