The fate of an entire world depends on the courage of one boy.Romeo Stevens is just an ordinary seventh grader who likes tennis and video games. His parents, who are both pro tennis players, are rarely home, which often leaves him, his little sister, Juliet, and their older brother, Macbeth—who hardly ever comes out of his room—home alone.Romeo might have expected to end up a video game designer or a tennis star someday, but he never thought he would be thrown into another world, or that the prettiest girl in his class would suddenly be interested in him. That changes on the last Friday before spring break. Romeo escapes a group of bullies with the help of his classmate Hellen Devitz through a door at the end of the hall, which transports him into the Kingdom of Avalon, a strange land controlled by the Knights of the Round Table and ruled by two competing kings.Romeo just so happens to be one of those kings, who reigns over the first half of Avalon. Romeo has no memory of being a king and insists to his new subjects that there must be some mistake. Hellen is certain that Romeo is the king, however, who has come to free Avalon’s people from the Knights of the Round Table and their evil King Arthur, who has long kept Camelot, the dark half of Avalon, enslaved and plans to conquer the light half as well.Hellen also claims that she is Romeo’s fiancée, something he also knows cannot be true.Romeo has no plans to save Avalon or to be anyone’s husband one day, but when he sees how much the citizens of Avalon need him, he knows he must at least try. Not all Romeo’s subjects are willing to accept a twelve-year-old boy as their king, though, and his role as king is put to an even greater test when the Knights of the Round Table invade the free half of Avalon, intending to make it theirs once and for all...