Debbie Garneau Griffin grew up on a small farmstead in Fair Haven, Vermont. After moving her elderly mother to a nursing home, Debbie discovered that their property had once been a waystation on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves seeking freedom in Canada.

Upon retiring from a successful high-tech career, Debbie was compelled to learn more about the lives of the refugees who had passed through her small Vermont town more than a century earlier. Out of her quest to research the Underground Railroad routes of the Northeast, came the genesis of The Eternal Conductor.

This is her first novel.

Debbie and her husband live in a historic gold-rush town in the California Sierra Nevada foothills, and coexist with all manner of critters. Lions and coyotes and bears and dogs and cats—oh, my!