Turn the Key Softly

Hattie Szabo is the Daughter in Szabo & Daughter Lock & Safe, the Frankford Avenue shop that has been in her family for three generations. She is good at opening doors and careful about which ones she lets anyone else open. Then a British stranger calls the after-hours line at ten past two on a sleet-soaked February morning, locked out in his socks, and Hattie's quiet, orderly life is about to need a new set of keys.