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

There's no time to respond, not when Murta lifts her hand again, leveling the plasma gun at Didi's chest, her other holding the controller to the shackles keeping Didi from acting. Or so the Underlord thinks. It's nice being underestimated when it counts the most.


Didi thumbs the wire she ran to her wrist, triggering her boots and whispering the barest hint of a prayer to her own cleverness in the very instant the soles of her feet light up with heat. Such a hit of warmth has never happened before, but the sudden jittering dance of the man next to her has, hasn't it? Once, a long time ago on Trash Heaven when Ives Jackus thought taking her in hand was a good idea. She'd thought him and his lesson learned, but he's proven as much a giant yoink now.


Chapter 72: On The Run In Central City