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

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FALLING by T.J. Newman, on sale July 6th from Avid Reader Press at Simon & Schuster. In the words of Lee Child, FALLING is: "amazing...intense suspense, shocks, and scares plus chilling insider authenticity makes this one very special."


You just boarded a flight to New York.


There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.


What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped.


For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.


The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.


Enjoy the flight.

In FALLING, on a crowded flight from Los Angeles to New York, passengers are unaware that the pilot's family has been kidnapped and the pilot must crash the plane to save them. Newman is a flight attendant herself and came up with the idea during a work shift when the passengers were sleeping. She began writing FALLING on napkins while working her red-eye shifts. As James Patterson says, "Falling is the best king of thriller. Characters you care deeply about. Nonstop, totally authentic suspense."

Newman, 36, is a former bookseller turned flight attendant. After completing a draft of her novel, she tried finding an agent but was rejected 41 times before being taken on by Shane Salerno of The Story Factory, where other writers include Don Winslow and Janet Evanovich.

'Falling' Available now:
https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Novel-T-J-Newman/dp/1982177888