🩵🏒MARRIED TO NUMBER 22 (Grizzlies Hockey 1) by Elise Faber-review tour🏒🩵

ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 21, 2025

I signed the contract.

I just didn’t expect her to show up ten years later, ready to cash it in.

Recently traded to the Grizzlies, I’m struggling to find my place on the team. I’ve changed coasts, moved away from my best friend, from the Breakers who became family, and…I’m alone.
And it’s my birthday.

A fact that everyone around me seems to have forgotten.Until a knock at the door proves differently.
I was in love with Luna when I was a teenager, and now she’s on my doorstep, vivacious and beautiful and…holding a piece of paper I barely remember.

One that says we’ll get married…
And I think I’m just insane enough to say yes.

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REVIEW: MARRIED TO NUMBER 22 is the first instalment in Elise Faber’s contemporary, adult GRIZZLIES HOCKEY erotic,hockey romance series, a spin off from the author’s EAGLES HOCKEY/ OAKRDIGE VINEYARDS series. This is twenty-five year old, Grizzlies hockey player Aiden Black , and twenty-five year old, heiress Luna Maybelle’s story line. MARRIED TO NUMBER 22 can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Several characters cross over for cohesion between series.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Aiden and Luna) MARRIED TO NUMBER 22 follows the rebuilding relationship between our story line couple. Aiden Black and Luna Maybelle were childhood best friends but ten years earlier, at the ages of fifteen, Aiden signed a contract with our heroine agreeing to marry when they turned twenty-five but Aiden and Luna’s lives went in opposite directions, and Luna’s reappearance in Aiden’s life means something must have gone wrong Her personal and professional life are spiraling out of control; desperate for help, Luna is hoping Aiden’s promise of marriage was real.

The world building follows Luna and Aiden’s rekindling friendship, a relationship that fell apart ten years earlier but the death of Luna’s beloved grandmother has snowballed with promises, pledges and caveats, and Aiden is the only man Luna has ever loved.

The relationship between Luna and Aiden is one of second chances. Ten years earlier, having made a pledge, and each of their lives went in different directions, Aiden had never stopped loving the woman who walked away but Luna is in trouble, and Aiden is determined to help our story line heroine. The $ex scenes are seductive and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters include the introduction of Luna’s questionable brother John and father Frank, and Aiden’s supportive family and friends including teammates Smitty and Gray. We are reintroduced to the return of billionaire Jean-Michel Dubois, owner of the Eagles Hockey, Oak Ridge Vineyards and Titan Capital; Jace Henderson, and teenage Bri.

MARRIED TO NUMBER 22 is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, family and relationships, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is thought provoking, captivating and emotional; the romance is spirited; the characters are edgy and sassy.

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Reviewed by Sandy

USA Today bestselling author, Elise Faber, loves chocolate, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and hockey (the order depending on the day and how well her team—the Sharks!—are playing). She and her husband also play as much hockey as they can squeeze into their schedules, so much so that their typical date night is spent on the ice. Elise changes her hair color more often than some people change their socks, loves sparkly things, and is the mom to two exuberant boys.

She lives in Northern California. Connect with her in her Facebook group, the Fabinators or email her at elisefaberauthor@gmail.com

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