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

As the pieces fall from her father's fingers, Didi's hurt returns. Her mind flashes to someone she trusted, to a face she thought she'd like to see again, even as a familiar voice rings out from the entry.


"Nice try, Miss Duke." She half turns, can't bring herself to spin all the way, catching a glimpse of Bo Rylen out of the corner of her eye as he struts unencumbered into the room. Though, she's aware of the guards following him inside. He's grinning, the blikey bole feces.


Murta's lips twist, wrinkling the folds around her mouth. "And who might you be, young man?"


He sweeps into a bow, at his most charming. Didi can feel the warmth of his charisma from where she stands but she's immune to it now. "Bo Rylen, my dear Underlord. At your service." He holds out one big hand. "The chip you so desire. Upon my first encounter with Miss Duke I liberated it from her and replaced it with a fake."


Chapter 31: Murta