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

Bo starts in his seat, Pip squawking in Didi's ear, but the Gunslinger doesn't seem surprised.


"That's how Jackus knew who you were." A statement of fact. And why Murta contacted him in the first place. Like calls to like.


"Murta." Elian makes a face, unhappy and disgusted. "She's an old friend of my father's and must have alerted Jackus to my real identity. I did my best to hide who I was, to hide you, but I'm sure he knows by now he had the right of things." The only reason Didi's here now at all. Because she's sure of the same. His hand settles over Didi's briefly and he squeezes while Bo's nose scrunches in anger at the sight. Maybe she should feel vindicated or even honored the thief is so jealous. But it just irritates her to no end. She squeezes back out of sheer spite. "That's why it was important I make the offer now, that we leave immediately. He won't find us where we're going."


Chapter 45: Not All Underlords Are Bad