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

"Now then," Emily says, cheerful and youthful sounding despite her advanced age. "Let's get you out of that horrendous outfit and into the bath."


Didi's only had access to one bath in her life and it was recently. She still recalls the Oasis with faintly fond memories, though its ruler she can't ponder without painting the entire experience with an unhappy brush. Maybe if Elian Flinn hadn't sold her to Captain Atlas, or if he hadn't been total stark howling bonkers, or even if he'd not tried to force her to marry him after attempting to enhance her with a cyborg virus, she might have been able to shake off the animosity she clings to like a blanket.


The servants make Didi nervous and her grandmother seems to realize it. She shoos everyone out, guiding Didi personally to the interior door deep in her closet that's bigger than the hold of the Solange and to a large bathroom.


Chapter 80: Princess Didi