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

Despite her plan to sneak around on her own, the instant she sets foot in the corridor she's intercepted by the faintly smiling Lilas.


"Miss Gont," the cyborg woman bows her head in greeting as if she didn't just deliver the worst news ever a short time ago. Didi knows it's not Lilas's fault Bo is such a stubborn git, but it's hard not to hold her accountable for delivering the truth. "Elian has asked I escort you anywhere you'd like to go."


So, he has her under guard then, after all. No matter the smooth delivery of the truth. "I'd like to see the whole facility."


Lilas stands aside and gestures for Didi to move on. Either she picked that up from Elian or he from her. Not that it matters, but Didi's is an orderly mind and it's something that will nag her in the quiet moments she has to think of such things. "Nowhere is off limits to you," Lilas says. "Please, begin your exploration as you choose and I will answer whatever questions you have."


Chapter 54: Intercepted