Choosing the best Christmas gifts for the ones you love is either an epic quest that you look forward to every year — or one ...

Transparent-faced fish drift through dusky waters. Snowlike flecks of dead plants sift down from the world above. Soft sponges peek through the soot of the seafloor.

Plus, Brown teases what’s in store in his and Ginna Claire Mason’s upcoming time-travel romance, A Newport Christmas.