From real-life flight attendant T. J. Newman, who wrote her first book, FALLING, at 35,000 feet while crisscrossing the country on redeye flights when her passengers were asleep.

T. J. Newman, a former bookseller turned flight attendant, worked for Virgin America and Alaska Airlines from 2011 to 2021. She wrote much of her first novel Falling on cross-country red-eye flights while her passengers were asleep. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona. This is her second novel.