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's heart leaps and crashes about a million times in two thudding beats in the breath it takes for Petal to smile at her. She sees exactly why her grandfather treats her like Petal, how very much alike they are on the outside, hoping the inside is a match, too. Except, to Didi's discouragement, she's none of her mother's height, the tall, thin woman easily four or five inches above her only daughter, limbs leaner, body more angular than soft like Didi's. A physical form that's been through more years of strain and trouble. At least Didi's well come by her own penchant for making messes from the jaunty look of cocky acceptance on Petal's grinning face.


Chapter 86: Mom