The Chatterbox Orphan

The chatty orphan Scarlett is handpicked by a mafia godfather to be the white-noise companion of Valentino, a trauma-ridden teenage boy rendered mute by PTSD. For three long years, Valentino has shut himself off from the world, until Scarlett’s endless stream of chatter pries open his sealed heart and pulls him out of the shadows of his trauma.Together, they unravel family conspiracies, reclaim core control of the mafia’s underground network, teach themselves coding from scratch, and break into the world’s elite underground geek salons. In the end, they redeem each other and build a home that belongs only to them.