This 1st of 12 stories in the Darkness and The Light series follows Gabrielle after A Friend In Need as she handles an adventure in Egypt, discovering more about her soul and other secrets hidden in the shifting sands of the great desert. It is all seen through the eyes of a bed ridden Xena as she reads Gabrielle's scrolls.
This is the 2nd part of the Darkness and the Light series. Xena, still reading from the scrolls left in Greece by Gabrielle, finds out about her bard's return to her family, while Poteidaia is on the verge of a deadly war.
The 3rd story sees Xena beginning to follow the over two years old trail of her beloved Gabrielle and discovers the true reason the amazons disappeared from Greece. Her travels allows her to discover, what brought Gabrielle back to the once again beleaguered amazon nation, a nation suffering from both threats from the outside world and stagnation inside.
The fourth part of The Darkness and The Light series. Xena follows Gabrielle's tracks across Asia hoping to reach her friend that last she heard was struggling with an inner darkness. At last we learn why no one has heard from Gabrielle in two years.