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?