gravediggers

"When risen corpses called 'bone houses' threaten Ryn's village because of a decades-old curse, she teams up with a mapmaker named Ellis to solve the mystery of the curse and destroy the bone houses forever"--Provided by publisher.

In order to provide for her siblings and repay debts, orphaned gravedigger Ryn accepts a paid offer from an apprentice mapmaker, Ellis, to travel into the nearby mountains filled with "bone houses," which are undead zombies who walk at night. In accepting the mission, Ryn hopes to find out what happened to her father, who disappeared, while Ellis wants to discover more about his origins. Both hope to undo the curse that compels the dead to attack the village.

"When risen corpses called 'bone houses' threaten Ryn's village because of a decades-old curse, she teams up with a mapmaker named Ellis to solve the mystery of the curse and destroy the bone houses forever"--.

Interest in a new girl and pressure from his parole officer cause seventeen-year-old Del, a gravedigger, to recall and face the "sexting" incident three years earlier that transformed him from a straight-A student-athlete into a social outcast and felon.

Del Hartwick can only get a job doing graveyard work because of his criminal past. His parents, teachers, friends, and he himself never really thought of his crime as a crime, but that is not what the authorities decided. Del closed off all emotion, until one day he met Livia, a girl who visits her dead sister in Del's graveyard. However, in order to be with her, Del feels she should know his past, but does not know if she will stay with him when she does.