This document provides a synopsis for a Christmas trilogy titled "Awaiting The Thaw". The trilogy follows a sailor over three Christmases as he returns home from a voyage, only to have his love turn away from him. Wounded, he runs back to sea, embarking on a whaling voyage that takes him to extreme locations around the world. Through his experiences of loss, isolation, friendship in strange places, and rescue missions, the sailor matures and comes to better understand the love he left behind. The synopsis teases themes of Homer's Odyssey, Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, and Melville's Moby Dick within the nautical adventure story.