An old woman wishes on a falling star, setting off an extraordinary sequence of events: a Vietnam Veteran decides to make one final journey before he dies and finds something he didn't know he was searching for, a single mother struggles to rescue her relationship with her delinquent teenage son, an emotionally crippled scientist resorts to crime to get her hands on a rare meteor and the leader of a snow-worshiping cult chooses a new object of devotion. All of them gather in the alpine town of Zermatt, Switzerland, where their wishes and memories weave a story of what it means to forget, to remember and to be remembered.

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Sarah Fitzgerald Hobel was born in Wurzburg, Germany; grew up in Syracuse, New York; graduated college at Jacksonville University in Florida and since then has called Switzerland home. She has a husband, three grown children, a cat and a dog. She has worked with children in various day care and nursery school settings for over 25 years in addition to working as an English teacher. She has also been an amateur soccer coach at FC Seuzach for 15 years. When not working or writing, she enjoys training with her dog, trying a new groove out on her drum set, peering at the stars through her telescope or studying Russian.