In Scorpion Hill readers are exposed to the cruelty and deception young Latin-American girls, chicas, are subjected to when they are recruited under false pretenses for the sex-slave trade in the United States. Also, Scorpion Hill deals with the illegal immigration of Mexican nationals into the United States. The mastermind behind this scurrilous enterprise is Miguel Alacran a notorious Mexican multi-millionaire. He runs up against the Paterlini brothers, a Mafia crime family, when he attempts to muscle in on their narcotics empire in the United States