Although I've read several books by Karen Kingsbury, I've never read any of the Baxter books and didn't even realize that this is part of a series. I did not find that fact at all confusing, thus story was easy to follow and it can easily be read as a standalone. This book Chronicles the lives of 2 young girls in Paris, one of them a parisian native and the native and 1 from Indiana. A series of tragic events unfold that (cont in comments)...