Just days before Alex Wagner leaves town to begin a highly anticipated new chapter in his life, he stumbles upon a lost holiday tradition hidden in the history of an aging lakefront bungalow in urban Cleveland, Ohio. With guidance from assorted locals, including a particularly mysterious neighbor, he brings the old house back to life and finds he has unknowingly mended lingering emotional wounds from the past, magically reigniting the spirit of the season for the entire city. The first novel in the Edgewater series, by Nancy Elvira, Count Every Star is a journey into the human spirit and the power it holds, and is an uplifting tale of love, loss, aspiration, vision, hope, brotherhood and ultimately, faith.