“You Were Meant for Me” —Gene Kelly Daniel is a Native American from Albuquerque, New Mexico who wears many hats—Air Marshal, professor, DEA consultant. Julie is a retired teacher from Seattle, Washington trying to find a future without her husband. After a chance encounter on an airplane, Daniel makes sure they meet again, and fate intervenes ensuring they survive amid life-threatening chaos. Daniel deals with his PTSD and Julie with her loneliness. They form a close bond to both his community on a New Mexico reservation and her family in Washington. Julie believes that fate has saved Daniel for a special purpose, and she aids in his endeavor to help his people find their way in the world, changing both their lives and the lives around them. In The Man on the Plane, fate brings two people and two disparate cultures together—to save both of their lives. About the Author Michele Pettyjohn is retired after thirty years of teaching high school science. She studied biology and chemistry for her BS degree, and she has an MEd which included a lot of marine biology and computer science. She lives in Oak Harbor, Washington with her two Cavalier King Charles dogs. She writes books as a hobby when she is not traveling, visiting her kids and grandkids, or making quilts. Michele grew up around the country as Navy child, and then as a Navy wife. She wants more than anything to educate young people about the world they live in and what they can do to make it a better place for them and their families to inhabit. She hopes her readers aspire to learn all they can about their world—understanding the physical world, the cultures of others, and how science and society overlap.