Seventeen-year-old Izumi Tanaka has always felt a slight disconnect from the world around her, whether it’s due to her Japanese-American ethnicity or because she's being raised by a single mother in a mostly white town. When a search for her father reveals him to be the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi is invited to meet the royal family. She gets mired in a whirlwind of lessons, family, culture and duty, while feeling caught between worlds and simultaneously falling for the enigmatic bodyguard assigned to her.