Magnificent creature. Only girls and horses are described this way. What if a girl was a creature in both senses, female and something else? What if there was a reason for people to find her different though they didn't know why? Grace is such a creature. She's elegant and utterly peculiar. All first daughters of her mother's family have been for generation upon generation and all that keeps them is a token from one who loves them and who they care for. A bargain brokered over a rose.