Other editions of book Valthea: I Read People

Lovers of stories bursting with romance, visions, and violence will be thrilled with "Valthea: I Read People" and its empathetic, psychic protagonist. In book one of The Daughters, Valthea Sarosi reads people’s pasts. Her determination to find her birth parents, headline a circus, and experience true love, lead her to perform at festivals throughout Romania with a Gypsy troupe and an Eastern European single-ring circus. Valthea falls in love with Sorin Dobra, the Gypsy troupe’s fire juggler with med-school ambition. They continue their relationship when Valthea joins the circus and discovers her unpredictable insight causes as much trouble as it does help. In her rise to stardom, Valthea encounters jealous bullying, obsession, and temptation. When her loved-ones lives are threatened, will she be able to access her paranormal prowess, or be forced to rely solely on heart and wit?

Exuberant and gifted teen, Valthea Sarosi, reads people's pasts. The determination to find her birth parents, headline a circus, and experience true love, lead her to perform at festivals throughout Romania with a Gypsy troupe and an Eastern Europe, Cirque du Soleil-style circus. Valthea and Sorin Dobra, the Gypsy troupe's fire-juggler with med-school ambition, fall in love. Childhood abandonment bonds the fair-haired Sorin, adopted by the Gypsies, and Valthea, adopted by the elderly woman who found her in the woods. In her rise to stardom, naturally empathetic Valthea, encounters jealousy, obsession, and bullying. But when Valthea's loved-ones are threatened, will she be able to access her paranormal prowess or be forced to rely solely on heart and wit?