End Matters

End Matters is Book 3 of The Buried Draughts Trilogy. Clarissa, Linda, and Ellen, along with the ghosts, gain several important living allies. With media attention breaking the centuries of secrecy about the town, major law enforcement has moved in. Corrupt local authorities try to hold their secrets as they deadlock with State and Federal intervention. With so much law in town, the difficulty level for the girls rises nearly beyond their ability to continue Clarissa's plan. Vengeful death isn't exactly a legal method of judgment. They need help.
It's the methods they use that give them a bit of hope, sowing confusion among the families as well as law enforcement. Yet, as they continue the fight, struggling against the odds, they find their greatest strength within. The living and the spirits work together.
The darkness hasn't obscured all, though. Despite everything that's happening around her, Meredith continues her plans and they still include Linda. Meredith's adjustments, though, are soon happening too quickly and randomly for her to control everything. Her slaves are not the most helpful of people.
Things go from bad to worse every direction the girls turn. Even with the ghosts' help they can't stay ahead of things.
Linda disappears during a lull in their planning, vanishing without a trace, even the ghosts can't find her. Only through her own battered wits does she and her partner escape Meredith's dungeon lab. She uses the occasion to carry out her own plans for Meredith... ending that threat.
The war against the Families is not yet over and... rather than a duel of spirits... its guns and violence. Can the spirits protect her? Will the grey ladies manage to aid her?
By the end... everyone is changed.