I ran away from home to find a better life?not be forced into one. You can call me picky, but a girl likes to be asked if she wants to work for you, not coerced?and Odyssey should know better. Now, I have to find a way to kick free?of Odyssey, and my trainer, Mack?without getting myself killed. Surviving the mission is just the first step. Getting out from under, that's gonna take some doing.

I spent the first twenty years of my life living in different parts of Queensland and the Northern Territory. My father was a teacher who liked to travel, so he took teaching appointments in all kinds of places. I don't think I stayed in one place for more than four years at a stretch. I wrote stories for most of that time, drawing on the different landscapes we encountered and giving a hyper-active imagination somewhere to run. Seeing so many different places gave me a lot of food for thought as I stepped into the world of adulthood and took my first full-time job, and I never stopped writing and exploring the worlds in my head. So far, I have written four collections of short stories and poetry, and a number of novels, with many more to come. I hope you have enjoyed this part of my journey.