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 freezes in shock, partly from his words and partly at the sight over his shoulder. The gunslinger stands at attention, silent, blue light extinguished. What is he doing here? Why does Dad have him? She's happy to see him, though he's as dead to the world as he was when she deactivated his self-destruct by killing him. Sure, she'd hoped to save him, save them all by doing so. But, now she knows better. He warned her this might happen and she did it anyway.


Dad's smile is strained as Parkay watches carefully, her own happy expression tight. Dad waves to Bo who nods to him in return, all slouching and easy going. Telling Didi she needs to be on guard and ready for anything.


"I'm so happy to see you, Dad." Didi feels tears well, turns her head so Parkay will see them. The woman seems to relax as Didi hugs her father a second time. "What's going on?"


"Just trust me. You have the gunslinger's old chip?" Dad pats her back, cheek on her hair.


Chapter 35: Following Orders