Although diagnosed with a terminal illness, cosmetic saleswoman Wanda Schwartz isn't as fearful as she should be about her fate, especially since her best friends, a vampire and a werewolf, have the power to make her immortal upon the simplest request.

A collection of two Christmas novels includes "Call Me Mrs. Miracle," in which, while working in the toy department of a family-run department store, Mrs. Miracle wreaks romantic havoc in the lives of Holly, who is searching for the perfect robot for hernephew, and Jake, the owner's son.

"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy novelist...

The dream peddler came to town at the white end of winter, before the thaw . . . Traveling salesmen like Robert Owens have passed through Evie Dawson's town before, but none of them offered anything like what he has to sell: dreams, made to order, with satisfaction guaranteed. Soon after he arrives, the community is shocked by the disappearance of Evie's young son. The townspeople, shaken by the Dawson family's tragedy and captivated by Robert's subversive...