In Extrasensory Deception, Suny Davis, precocious, loquacious, and socially-inept daughter of a famed researcher of paranormal phenomenon, gets sent to college early where she stumbles upon a campus murder and becomes determined not to use her own hated and hidden psi talents to solve the mystery.

Suny's non-traditional upbringing and gift for languages get her in trouble again, making inevitable her transfer from boarding school to the early college that is the alma-mater of her father's handsome but infuriating assistant, Anthony Scarborough.

Anthony recommends Suny to this peculiar institution, knowing it may be the one place she might meet her equals. And after one long weekend, getting away from her disturbingly over-developed intellect -- and body -- is a must.

Settling in at a school where her academic standards are finally met, Suny is the last to see a brilliant student before he is mysteriously murdered in the new science building, purportedly as haunted as it is architecturally anomalous.

Evaluating the haunting theory as preposterous, and determined not to use the paranormal talents she wishes she did not possess, Suny investigates the murder by methods as traditional as she can make them.

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Suny Davis, brainy and intractable daughter of an infamous paranormal researcher, takes a nanny job at a mountaintop estate where, by the whim of a long-dead eccentric who favored fescue, the trees have been butchered and so has a local woman.

Suny takes the offer of her esteemed professor, Mr. Munston, to be summer caretaker of his sister's progeny while he and Anthony Scarborough, Suny's father's assistant and her de facto bodyguard cum babysittter, explore the local ghost legends, including that of the Munstons' progenitor, Great, Great Uncle Johannes, said to have murdered and buried many a servant girl under the estate's immaculate turf.

Taking her charges on interminable treks across the rolling lawns is one way Suny manages to occupy the three children, whose care befuddles her. When one of her wards digs for dead servant girls at the far edge of the property and finds instead a freshly buried neighbor, Suny finds herself enmeshed in yet another murder.

Resisting Anthony's entreaties to use her own denied and despised psi abilities to help uncover the murderer, and ignoring yet again the entreaties of her own heart to see Anthony as something other than the bane of her existence, Suny uses her keen mind to scrutinize a cast of characters.

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