Martha Waters is the author of Christmas Is All Around, and the Regency Vows series, which includes To Have and to HoaxTo Love and to LoatheTo Marry and to MeddleTo Swoon and to Spar, and To Woo and to Wed. She was born and raised in sunny south Florida and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in coastal Maine, where she works as a children’s librarian by day, and loves sundresses, gin cocktails, and traveling.