The young novelist Sara Barquinero—praised by Carlos Zanón, Nuria Labari, Andrés Barba, Elvira Navarro, Elizabeth Duval, and Luna Miguel—establishes herself as a major literary force with an astonishing work of fiction.

Los escorpiones is a novel of novels: a titanic and mysterious narrative piece. The protagonists, Sara and Thomas, become wrapped up in a conspiracy theory driven by political and economic forces that aim to exert control through hypnosis and subliminal messaging in books, video games, and music in order to induce suicide. Both characters navigate emotional turmoil as an indescribable and powerful bond begins to form between them, and they ultimately choose to investigate this cult, which shares a name with one of the few animal species that would rather kill itself than endure pain.