Battle for Daylight (Crescent Moon Chronicles Book 2) by L.E. Towne ➱ Release Tour

Title: Battle for Daylight

Series: Crescent Moon Chronicles Book 2

Author: L.E. Towne

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Release Date: July 1, 2020

Marlowe:

Christopher Marlowe battles his destiny to get back to the present and to the love of his life, Tam Paradiso. But when he finally escapes Tudor London for modern-day Philadelphia, it’s two years in Tam’s past, and she has no idea who he is. He can comfort her as she mourns her dead father and charm her family as they accept that Tam’s destiny is linked with his. He can even help her fight the mysterious rain spirit responsible for a series of grisly murders. But can he make her fall in love with him all over again?

Paradiso:

After two years as an undercover vice officer, Tam Paradiso wants out. She belongs in the homicide division as a detective like her father was. But she’s up against her partner, the beautiful and reckless Ava Knox, for the job. When Tam’s father dies suddenly, she reaches her low point. Still, she must solve a serial murder case, keep her interfering family at bay, and fend off a crazy, sexy time traveler who claims they are lovers in her future. At least her murder suspect is a human villain, not a supernatural one. Or is it?

L. E. Towne continues her time-travel saga in BATTLE FOR DAYLIGHT, a heady blend of suspense, sex, and the supernatural. Silver-tongued Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe charms his way back to the side of scrappy vice cop Tam Paradiso. In a narrative pebbled with literary and historical nuggets, nothing slows the pace as Tam and Marlowe hunt monsters and hammer out a relationship. Threats abound—a serial killer, a mysterious rain spirit, a smarmy lieutenant, and time itself, which any moment might snatch Marlowe from Tam’s grasp. This second volume in the Crescent Moon Chronicles is as exciting as the first. –Nancy Young, author of Something in the Dark Series

Another action-packed episode
I actually might have enjoyed this one a bit more than the first.
Probably because the foundation was already laid and we just delved right into the action and adventure

Kit makes his way back but it seems he didn't quite arrive where or maybe I should say when he had planned.
That's okay ingenuity is one of his gifts.
Tam IMO is much more "approachable" in this episode.
Life hasn't quite shafted her yet. We also get to spend more time with Volpi and create a more personal connection as well as get to see a few of his "secrets"
And Ziggy... she is such a boss

Our ragtag group of supernatural sleuths (aka hunters) discover that there may be more to the missing night-walkers than an unhinged serial killer. Kit knows time is precious for him and that becomes more apparent when Volpi makes the connection between the "gifts" he and Tam share and the possibility there may be more fate has in store for her.

Can they solve the murders before time takes Tam - possibly quite literally?
Can Kit convince her of what once was even if it is yet to happen?
How do you stop the rain?

This was such an engaging and action-packed story.
The characters are well written.
With a vivid story line that drags the reader in placing them dead center amidst the action
I found myself screeching (yeah it was a touch above yelling) at the cast to "turn around!" or "Don't listen!"
At other times I was holding my breath hoping, hoping we came out the other side intact, still a whole team.
And occasionally blushing at Kits affections towards Tam

This is a solid urban fantasy that I wholeheartedly recommend for those who enjoy a more in-depth experience when they read. I suggest you start with the first in series as it lays the groundwork for the cast and the different "supernatural" aspects of the story line.
This is a series you will want to follow.

L. E. Towne is a self-proclaimed reluctant traveler and a continual student of the human condition known as real life. Her work has been published in Welter, Legendary, Zouch, and Main Street Rag, and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine. Her debut novel is Knight of the Crescent Moon, the first of the Urban Fantasy series, Crescent Moon Chronicles, and is available on January 1, 2020. In between novels, she has written and produced several short plays. She currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her tuxedo cat, Kat Marlowe.