Put your finger on the Georgia-Florida state line and drag it east until you hit the ocean. Right there, under the tip of your fingernail, is a slice of paradise known as Crab Island. Jacqueline "Jac" Dawson rolls over the old wooden bridge onto Crab Island after a ten-year absence and one ill-advised marriage to find the landscape and locals of her colorful, eccentric, perfect home unchanged. But just as she and her son, Milo, settle into Unit 5 at The Pink Mermaid Motel, murder and moonshine rip Crab Island open at the seams. Old family grudges wash up on shore, gossip slips between the...

Bailey Hamilton is - literally and figuratively speaking - in quite a bind. It's Christmas Eve and she is being held in the custody of airport security after causing a ruckus in the ticketing terminal on one of the busiest travel holidays of the year. But as Bailey will explain, she is not to blame for the situation at hand. The Hamilton-Flowers-Danforth-Lopez family boasts more than two decades of Christmas celebrations gone wrong, starting with her parents' shotgun wedding and including a shameful mid-nativity divorce decree, epic family dinner battles, and a pile of other holiday...