In a universe where Humanity exists only in scattered and disconnected start-up colonies, the threat of total extinction looms high. One woman, twenty-five years old and living in the body of a twelve year old girl, struggles with burgeoning mental abilities while working to hold of an alien invasion. Finding that she's tuned into an enigmatic machine that allows her to share the mind of anyone in the galaxy doesn't necessarily help. Deception is the third book the Waning Earthlight series and the first of three that follows the life of Carli-three.