As a Floridian, I am Christmas challenged. I see the Hallmark stories with the cold weather and snow at Christmas Eve, and as one who has never experienced snow, I somehow felt that my Christmases didn’t measure up.

But, hey, I have had Christmases where the upside-down thermostat strip on my AC/heater would cut off the contraption when it dropped below forty degrees. Even with those occasions being rare in Florida, I have spent nights when the temps dropped into the teens wrapped in a full-winter coat to sleep. Oh, and alligators. I’ve seen alligators on lawns, basking in the sunshine to stay warm in the winter chill.

Attention-Grabbing Alligators

Now that I have your attention, I can tell you that, while a perk, the setting of the swamp town of Mullet Harbor in All I Want for Christmas was simply a perk for me. I had another reason for writing this story.

Abigail Brewster is my favorite type of character: unassuming and under-estimated, a David hidden by the misconceptions of others. Her meekness is mistaken for weakness, but take a stance against the people she loves, the town she holds dear, or the God she loves more than anything, and her light shines.

Sheriff Remy Arneaux is the boy, now a man—and a handsome Cajun at that—that Abigail, or Abby, as Remy calls her, has always loved.

In their relationship and the pitfalls that they face, Abigail presents herself as the pre-married Proverbs 31 woman, the one who has set her sights on the man she loves and intends to present herself chaste before him. She’s not perfect, and she has to backtrack sometimes, because, after all, Abigail Brewsters in today’s society are very real.

All I Want for Christmas is meant to shine a light on their attributes and their failures, to show others that their efforts will never be fruitless when they place their trust in God, and well, those quirky folks of Mullet Harbor made the pathway to Abigail getting her man a hilarious adventure. And you won’t want to miss the antics of Abercrombie: the alligator on the lawn.

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Fay Lamb is the only daughter of a rebel genius father and a hard-working, tow-the-line mom. She is not only a fifth-generation Floridian, she has lived her life in Titusville, where her grandmother was born in 1899.

Since an early age, storytelling has been Fay’s greatest desire. She seeks to create memorable characters that touch her readers’ hearts. She says of her writing, “If I can’t laugh or cry at the words written on the pages of my manuscript, the story is not ready for the reader.” Fay writes in various genres, including romance, romantic suspense, and contemporary fiction.

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