Reporter and photojournalist Jessica McCall has a tenuous relationship with her sister Amanda who still lives in their hometown of Ebony. When Amanda doesn’t return Jess’s phone calls Jess decides to return to Ebony to find out why she hasn’t heard from her. Taking a leave of absence from her work and saying goodbye to her ex-boyfriend, Jess heads to the town she swore she would never return to. Living in Ebony is journalist Frankie Marshall who moved there after a devastating incident on the job where he was forced to take a life. After receiving a cryptic message from Amanda McCall and then learning she has disappeared, Frankie and Jess, who are falling in love, begin to suspect something evil is happening in Ebony. Soon the lovers learn that this sleepy town is at the heart of a conspiracy lead by practitioners of voodoo and anyone missing from Ebony may have been turned into zombies.

Ebony is the first horror book I have read that held me spellbound from beginning to end. T.C. Lo Tempio does a wonderful job creating a dark mood in the book that gave me shivers. The characters and their relationships are skillfully woven into the unfolding drama but that was not my favorite part of the book. For me, the best part of the book has to be the details given in each scene. The descriptions of not only the actions of the characters, but also of the smells and sights around them were so vivid and real that there were times while reading when I had to turn on all the lights in the room. Ebony is a book fans of horror and suspense will truly enjoy!