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 paces her room, head down, hands clenched at the small of her back, jaw so tight her mouth goes numb from the pressure. A headache blooms behind her eyes, her chest heavy with guilt and frustration.


This is not how things were supposed to go. Her triumphant delivery of Tarvis to Petal's waiting ship was intended to reunite Didi with her mother and father, to bring her family together at last, after seventeen years of Didi thinking her mother was dead.


Instead, she stomps in her heavy, black boots back and forth from the door to her quarters, through the sitting room into her bedroom, to the closet and bathroom with its pale tiles spinning her around to clomp in the other direction. She has no idea how long she's paced, only that movement is necessary and is the only thing keeping her from completely losing her sanity.


Chapter 90: Family Reunion