Goodreads asked Lisa Williamson Rosenberg:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Lisa Williamson Rosenberg Embers on the Wind was inspired by the story of a freedom-seeking woman who had died in my father-in-law's Massachusetts farmhouse, a former stop on the Underground Railroad. The legend was that this woman's spirit haunted the house. I knew nothing about her--not her age, her story, or which plantation she'd fled--beside the direction she was running: North to Canada, along with the fact that she didn't make it. What, I wondered, as I walked the halls at night, would she make of me, this free 21st century Black woman? What would she think of who I was and how I had used my choices? These questions led me to flesh her out in my mind, to tell my imagined version of her story--and the stories of others who had passed through the house in the past and present day.

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