Nineteen-year-old Huckleberry Honeybee doesn't want to save humanity. He just wants his dad back. Unfortunately, Dad is one of the four most powerful enforcers serving the alien ruler who conquered Earth.

Half human and half Apisen, Huckleberry has spent his life caught between two species and desperate for something more exciting than working at his mother's nectar shop in futuristic Tokyo. Then his mother drops one hell of a family secret: his missing father is King Chavalier Balthazaar, Apisen royalty and a member of the Zentry—four devastatingly powerful warriors serving Lord Zog.

For Huckleberry, the news changes everything. He's not some directionless teenager destined for an ordinary life. He's a freaking prince—and he's getting his father back, no matter how dangerous Chavalier has become.

Then Aegon appears in his bedroom with an absolutely terrible idea.

Aegon's older brother, Albatros, is Zentry too, and Aegon has spent years searching for a way to free him. He offers Huckleberry a deal: help him recover Albatros, and he'll help Huckleberry reclaim Chavalier.

Huckleberry agrees.

Their first attempt at a family reunion ends with Chavalier holding a sword to Huckleberry's throat.

So much for father-son bonding.

But Huckleberry isn't giving up. As he and Aegon push deeper into the lives of the Zentry, their reckless family rescue mission begins snowballing into an insurgency against the regime controlling Earth. And Huckleberry discovers that getting his father back might require something much harder than surviving Lord Zog.

Chavalier might not want to be rescued.

Now Huckleberry must decide how far he'll go to rebuild the family he lost—and whether being Chavalier's son is really the extraordinary destiny he's been searching for.