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 waits on the platform, her booted feet as heavy as her heart. But at least she's making progress at last. Pip wings in, landing on her shoulder as a massive freighter takes off on the other side of the airfield, the roar of its exiting engines muffled by the damper shielding surrounding the port. Without it, every single person on the paved surface would be dead from the plasma blast and sound wave breaking from the two giant engines. Instead, she feels a faint buffet of warm air and a distant ringing in her ears. She watches the dull gray hull rise and disappear, thinking back with tears stinging the corners of her eyes about another ship leaving The Homestead just a few short days ago. A ship that has taken her gunslinger away. There and then, in the heat of the sun of a dusty planet she's learned to hate, Didi swears on her last breath she will find her cyborg friend and kill anyone who gets in her way.


Chapter 66: Escape From Homestead