Scorpion's Dance [antikvár]

PROLOGUEMaria Barsotti shifted the sleeping child in her arms, trying to get comfortable, but no matter what airline it was or what they said in their commercials to grab your money, airplane seats were never big enough for comfort.Maybe up in the first class section, and she had thought for a moment about the family flying first class, but then she found out that first class seats would cost twice as much and quickly settled for the family fare tourist package.And it wouldn't have been so bad, she thought, except that the roar of the jet's engines on takeoff had frightened Cara and she had screamed until Maria had to take her from the next seat, hold her in her lap, and comfort her.Nick had.pffered to help, but he had his hands full with the other two across the aisle. Both Teresa and Nick Junior were full of questions, and their father delighted in answering them. Nick had not seen them for three months because he had financed this vaca-tion trip back to their old hometown in Italy by