Wanting to escape their daily routines, four friends plan a trip to a little known village in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. According to an old travel book discovered in a trunk, Teotenaca is known for its natural beauty and art. But due to a booking snafu, Michelle Hardtke finds herself traveling alone, with her friends Maggie, Angel and Max following a couple days behind. At first, she explores the tourist haunts in the colonial city of Oaxaca. After a winding ride through the mountains, she arrives in Teotenaca. It has beauty and artists, but she senses there are hidden mysteries that no one will reveal. Only after a fateful hike does she fully understand what the "draw of the mountain" will mean for her. While her friends wait for her safe return, Michelle begins a vision quest, a dream journey that takes her to the darkest realms of our history and prepares her to "shed" her old self. As she returns home, her transformation becomes more apparent to her co-workers and friends. She has been given a great gift, an ability to undermine the darkness in the world with the light of her powerful imagination. Dreams of Darkness and Light is an inspiring visionary novel about one woman's odyssey toward personal and spiritual transformation.