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

The blindfold is a bit much, but she doesn't argue, though she has to stifle a giggle when they shield the eyes of the crow first. Really? How ridiculous this all seems to her now she's actually moving again and taking action, even if it's just to leave the Solange with a black bit of cloth tied around her eyes.


A plan forms, has been for the last few minutes as she fumbles herself forward with a strong hand supporting her then settles into the creaking seat of what has to be a transpod. She purposely acts clumsy while doing so, hoping to gain some small advantage later from encouraging her captors to think her unbalanced. It's a small thing to cling to, but she'll take every single edge she can wrangle.


Chapter 71: Escape Plan