After the murder of her beloved, poor young Teresa Mendoza is forced to leave her native Mexico and go into hiding in Texas. Soon, impressed by the girl’s wit and resourcefulness, she is invited to Camila, the local drug queen. Camila intends to ruin her husband Don Epifanio’s business with the guest’s hands, but Teresa is too smart to become a pawn in someone else’s game. In the United States, this extraordinary Mexican begins a completely new life, for she realizes that she herself understands a lot about trafficking in illegal substances and is far more pragmatic and calculating than her bosses. Helpful people help Mendoza enter this business, and she starts cautiously at first, then more boldly climbs the ladder paved with first-rate cocaine. Thus, rising from the very bottom, the protagonist gains an entire world. Masterfully manipulating friends and foes, rivals and colleagues, the police and her own men, managing everywhere and never leaving traces, the young, strong, confident Teresa Mendoza takes the throne of the Queen of the South. Now she fears nothing and no one, though the price of such a rapid ascent may be very, very serious...