Five Hundred Scorpions Author:Shelby Hearon Paul Sinclair knows it is a long way from Charlottesville, Virginia to Tepoztlan, Mexico, and that's exactly what he wants. At 48, Paul feels something important is missing from his life, his marriage, his practice, his relationship to his father, and sons. — Running away to join a team of female anthropologists in a primitive mountain town m... more »ay help him find himself, even if it shakes up his wife, Peggy, and their children. Here, in a village where magic, myth, infidelities, revenge, and five hundred scorpion species create a risky Eden, Paul is being set up for a fall. And back in Virginia, red-headed Peggy discovers that sometimes the one who stays behind travels the farthest, and that romance can appear unexpectedly in your own backyard.« less