Finished: The Paris Apartment (Foley) When down-on-her luck, Jess, messages her step-brother, Ben, in Paris to tell him she needs a place to stay for a few months, he's hesitant at first, but then says of course. Given up to foster care by their parents as preteens/teens, Ben was adopted by a wealthy, loving family. Jess spent the rest of her adolescence going from foster home to foster home. One raised in near poverty, and one raised in a nurturing environment. Ben texts Jess the day she's arriving and tells her the address and apartment number and says he'll be waiting for her. However, when Jess arrives at the very wealthy apartment building, no one answers the gate buzzer and Ben isn't answering his messages or calls. Jess manages to get in the gate by watching another resident punch in the numbers. As she ascends in the elevator, Beth realizes that each floor of the old, gothic building is actually an entire apartment! There are five floors and five apartments. Finally getting into Ben's apartment (by picking the lock) Jess finds it empty, except for Ben's keys and wallet. That's not like Ben and Jess becomes alarmed. Something is eerie about the place, and right off the bat strange things start happening. There are six other occupants of the building, including the "concierge" who lives in a tiny, one-room shed in the courtyard. As Jess begins to ask questions about her brother to the people who live there, we begin to see what Ben was up to and what may have happened to him. Meanwhile, Jess has to figure things out with very little to go on. Another good page-turner of a book! There's a big twist in the middle of the book that I didn't see coming, so that was a nice surprise. :-) I won't spoil any more, but it was a good read.