After completing a degree in literature and publishing poetry in obscure journals, author M.A. Wood spent the following decades exploring jobs, relationships and the mysteries of the universe. A recurring thread throughout her life to date is a fascination with and reliance upon dreams as not only mirrors for self-growth/self-discovery/self-knowledge, but also portals.

Next Time arrived as a series of dreams, which transformed themselves into a larger story offering one version of where we go when we're no longer here.

This unusual book defies classification, with its closest comparisons being to David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and the movie Inception by Christopher Nolan. As the story begins, Clarity Crow finds herself disoriented by the world around her. The reader and the main character journey together to a destination neither could possibly have predicted.