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 gapes at him, heart pounding harder yet, while disturbance behind him draws his attention. He turns, his tall, slim body far more lithe than his face suggests possible, the dark red robe he wears somehow formal despite what appears to be silky sleep clothes beneath.


She wasn't sure who to expect from Solomon Gont, but this kindly faced if now stern old man with the commanding voice wasn't it.


"Sir." She recognizes the face of the leader who storms into her grandfather's private bedroom, visible to her through the open door. What she takes in on the other side screams opulence but excellent taste, more deep red and gold blending into tall ceilings and lush carpeting, the corner of a bed just peeking around the edge of the entry. She's seen this man before, but it takes her a moment to realize where. Not from familiarity of meeting, but because he looks like her.


Didi's mind staggers under the weight of that truth as Solomon speaks.


Chapter 78: Grandfather