Somehow, these people that she killed, their deaths gave her back parts of herself. But these parts were special. She could mold them into whatever she wanted to be, and she wanted to be human. Oh her prince had long since died, but she knew his line lived on. She couldn't find them, but she knew they were there, somewhere. Rena was certain that if she were human, she could satisfy the revenge that had burned so brightly within her all these two hundred years.

Some things, she had found, were worth waiting for.

But the souls of the fishermen and village people were small and petty. She needed a hero's soul. And when the wind whispered its secrets to her, her half-formed face twisted with her lopsided grin. Her actual power was not enough for direct action, but she had learned many ways to get what she wanted. That elf-all imp, Grojavek, was just one way. Not her first choice, but the best one she had access to, so she had sent him and his timy brain to get the mirror for her, that she might put her plan into action.

Yes, she would get what she wanted.

And she wanted Wendell.

If The 10th Kingdom was Virginia & Wolf's story, then If I Should Never Find You is Wendell's. Llike other rulers before him, he finds that life as a commoner is not all he imagined it would be when he decides to sneak out of the palace disguised as one.