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

She's led away by the same pair of women, considers running. But this place is a warren of corridors, a mess of people and doorways and staircases. She could flee, but she's pretty sure doing so might lead to worse than just being held until the Underlord's people come.


Besides, why run? This is what she wanted, isn't it? To find the Underlord and trade the chip for her father. Perfect. Mind you, she doesn't have the gunslinger to guard her back, or Pip to watch over her shoulder. It's just Didi and the tiny, gold sliver of tech in her secret pocket.


Her fingers dip, explore the space. Find the trigger for her protections.


She stumbles to a halt, chest constricting, heart pounding, all the blood rushing from her face to pool at her feet. She's certain she's going to pass out as blackness closes in around the edges of her vision, her chest compressed so tightly she can't breathe.


Chapter 26: Betrayed