Going underground / Vaught, Susan

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.