Anthony, 13, burdened with paranormal gifts and suffocating grief, meets a radiant, mystical Queen Bee, whose friendship will either heal his sorrow or kill him.
Anthony loses his mother to cancer when he is nine. Four years pass, while grief, bitter and heavy like clotted honey, slowly chokes him. He clings to his mother's memory by tending the colony of honey bees she left him when she died -- but Anthony is no ordinary bee keeper. He has a paranormal ability to communicate with hive-minds, a dangerous ability his mother made him forswear on her deathbed. When Anthony turns thirteen and finds his mother's hive is dying, he fears his final link to her will be lost, until a mysterious queen bee appears and his colony begins to recover. Soon he must use his forbidden powers to fight the dark legions pursuing this little queen, while she guides him down the path which will forever heal his terrible grief -- or kill him.