Caroline lives her day to day life as a teenager in New York trying to find and spread joy everywhere she walks. A regular volunteer, a straight A student, an avid reader, artistic, and environmentally aware, she embodies life and happiness that most everybody strives to achieve, especially and including her two best friends, Archie and Callum. It is a completely normal day in her home burrow when things take a drastic turn for the worst, and she makes a shocking discovery which will change the rest of her life, and even the life she has already lived. Caroline's father, whom she knows nothing about, is the King of the Universe, which just so happens to be coming apart at the seams. Upon this discovery, she is brought on a journey back to her home planet. She finds on this trek that the rest of the Universe is actually much worse, and far darker, than her Earth life could have ever pictured. she can only hope her and her friends can make it home alive, and preferably in one piece.