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 paces her room, though she's calmer than she expected to be. It's Bo who sits in the chair she'd recently pondered in herself, whose agitation reaches her in waves of unhappiness so powerful she can practically smell them every time she passes him. The carpet swishes under her sandals and now she suspects it has some kind of consciousness though that's ridiculous, honestly. And yet, it's quite likely everything in this Oasis Elian created has some kind of cyborg tech attached to it.


Maybe that should freak her out but she's shocked to admit it doesn't. She comes to a sudden halt at the realization, accepting him about as easily as she accepts GS. After all, she's far more comfortable with tech than she's ever been with people. Her dad saw to that, keeping her contained and protected in their little territory on Trash Heaven. Only now she suspects-is finally willing to consider-her father wasn't just protecting her but hiding her. From her own mother.


Chapter 51: Nutter Ideas