Chapter 3 Summary

Hardy Benjamin is the business reporter for the paper. Hardy is having coffee with her friend, Annika, one morning when she receives a call that someone has broken into her apartment. Hardy rushes home to find many of her possessions missing and her kitchen window broken. The police will not allow Hardy to retrieve the possessions they reclaimed from the burglars until the other victim, an unknown man, is present. Hardy waits several weeks before the police finally call and let her know she can reclaim her items. When Hardy arrives at the police station, she meets the other victim, an Irishman who is charming, but somewhat flighty. When Hardy tells him she plans to report the crime to her insurance company so that she can get her kitchen window fixed, he offers to do it for her.

Hardy waits weeks for the...