Why would a woman in her late forties leave her family and friends in the beautiful Adelaide hills and go to live and work in the volatile Middle East? Why, after five years on Cyprus from where she travelled to the far corners of the earth, did Raylene Pearce move to Egypt? In Cairo, why did the landlord of the apartment house she found, lower the rent to allow her to stay there? And when the building emptied why did he say he wanted her to find more tenants and then abruptly change his mind? What really happened on the road back from Alexandria? Why did he tell his lone tenant to leave the morning after 9/11? It's all there in Night Journeys.....and more.