[5] Rockabilly singer Byron Harley survives a mountain top plane crash and finds himself stuck in fairy time in Tufa territory.

Bo-Kate Wisby and Jefferson Powell are young lovers banished from Cloud County by the Tufa for murder; a curse prevents them from returning home and strips them of their magical abilities.

Miller felt that the tension between Bo-Kate and her former lover Jefferson in the novel's closing chapters "delves into an interesting character's heart, mind, memories ... and links to the supernatural.

"[7] Writing in a review of Long Black Curl in Library Journal, Megan M. McArdle said she enjoyed seeing the return of some of the major characters from the previous Tufa books, and complimented Bledsoe for having produced "another magical tale".

[9] Kat Hooper called Long Black Curl "an emotional story full of hate, jealousy, revenge, and tragedy ... [that] borders on horror".