The small South Australian mid-north town of Yongara is getting a new shop. A shop the locals hope will be a little different, something out of the ordinary, they should be careful what they wish for.
The old barber's shop has been restored, but when and by whom? Nobody can recall seeing anybody working on the dilapidated old building, but it looks a treat.
There is no fanfare or grand opening, one day the store is being renovated, the next it's a bric-a-brac shop that is open for business and run by two very unusual owners?brother and sister. There's something alluring on the other side of the large glass windows for some of the locals, things that mean a lot to a few of them, but they come at a price.

Stephen. L West writes under the pseudonym of Stephen J Bannister. Stephen was born in the UK but moved to South Australia in the mid-sixties growing up in Adelaide. Enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy aged 17. Married in nineteen eighty. Joined the New South Wales Fire Brigades before moving back to South Australia.
Started writing in the late nineteen-eighties creating technical manuals which led to dabbling in fiction. As an amateur astronomer with a lot of interest in other sciences, he decided to write his first science fiction novel.
Stephen and his wife live on a two acre plot in the rural mid-north of South Australia. Their family has expanded to seven grandchildren.