I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn.

Trash Heaven has been Didi Duke’s home for as long as she can remember. The dumping ground of the galaxy provides her with everything she’s ever needed or wanted. Except, maybe, the attention of her inventor father, always busy with his next creation. Good thing he’s passed on his talents to his sixteen-year-old daughter. With the company of her best friend—the cyborg crow, Pip—Didi is happy to scour her territory for treasures discarded as trash. But, when an evil Underlord kidnaps her father, Didi can no longer hide herself away in the garbage. Her plan to resurrect a retired cyborg gunslinger and rescue her dad leads her into danger and the heart of the rotting planet—Trash City. She’ll figure out the rest of her plan—eventually.

Didi and the Gunslinger

Didi follows Bo, his hand still gripping hers, dragging slightly behind him as they move through the city. She keeps her head down now, worried she might run into Jackus again. Has he tracked her here? He must have realized the gunslinger put her on the train, that she's looking for her father. It's just disconcerting he might know how to find her.


But no, as she walks along behind Bo, his firm hand on hers, her logical mind puts it all together. Of course he knows she's in the city and their path from the mag train yard was pretty much a straight shot. It would be easy for Jackus to find them. She's been acting foolishly, bouncing around from disaster to desperate act to mindless wandering.


That has to stop if she's going to find Dad.


Their odd course to escape their chasers seems to have done the job, for she sees no sign of Jackus or the two men he's been traveling with. Either that or the mechcop appearance scared the squatter enough he's gone into hiding.


Chapter 25: Eden