No Other Man [Mass Market Paperback]

Shannon Drake (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1995

Discover the new Shannon Drake!

There is no other passion so breathtaking and real, no other love so wild yet tender. And no other can set the heart racing with such glorious unbound abandon.

No other man.

Skylar Connor was widowed before she met the man she married by legal proxy. Now she has come to the Dakota badlands for the home and goldmine left her by her late husband. But it is a painted savage who welcomes "Lady Douglas" to the Black Hills. The handsome half-breed son of a Sioux woman and an English lord, he steals Skylar from her stagecoach ... and declares it is he whom she wed sight unseen. Now Hawk has a wife he doesn't want a sensuous vixen who ignites his rage and his desire ... a beautiful schemer he must punish with ecstasy, and let no other man claim.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Unlike Drake's Branded Hearts, her latest, set primarily in 19th-century Blackfoot country, is rushed and slapped together. Readers familiar with her works may feel cheated upon entering Skylar Conner's topsy-turvy world. Skylar is on the run from her powerful, murderous stepfather. In her flight, she encounters the kind Lord David Douglas, who offers her sanctuary in marriage. What he doesn't tell her is that the marriage is by legal proxy to his youngest son. After the wedding, Lord Douglas dies (of natural causes), and Skylar treks to his estate in the Dakota Badlands. En route, her stagecoach is attacked by a Sioux raiding party and she is taken captive by the leader, who takes her to an isolated cabin, where he re-invents the bodice-ripping hero of 1970s' romances. Hawk is in fact Lord Douglas's half-breed son (surprised?) and hence Skylar's husband. The unhappiness caused by this discovery is compounded by Hawk's suspicions about Skylar's role in his father's death. Drake asks the reader for a healthy dose of suspended disbelief; Hawk slips too easily from war paint in one scene to smoking jacket in the next. There are other problems: Skylar's stubbornly (or stupidly, depending on your P.O.V.) guarded secret and two major unresolved issues that make a sequel inevitable. Even so, that's no excuse for the loose ends.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

" A writer of incredible talent." -- Affaire de Coeur

Shannon Drake continues to produce addicting romances" -- Publishers Weekly

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Avon (November 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380771713
• ISBN-13: 978-0380771714
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,449,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very moving romance full of action along with passion., April 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: No Other Man (Mass Market Paperback)

The book was exciting from the beginning to end. Very hard to put down once you got started. I love the firey passion from the beginning and them not knowing that they had fallen in love from the get go. The fighting spirit of Skylar was what Hawk fell in love with without even knowing it. Loved the book. Keep writing these stories they're great.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars it's okay, September 15, 2000

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JWu (NY, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Other Man (Mass Market Paperback)

I've read several of Shannon Drake's novels and this is not one of my favorites. I think her medieval stories are a lot better than her civil war and American West ones. Skylar is annoying. Her "fighting spirit" is irritating. She's just a shrew. If I were Hawk, I would have left her on the prairie somewhere.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars When the hero rapes the heroine..., July 1, 2008

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M. Junkins (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Other Man (Mass Market Paperback)

I always put the book down. The plot had potential but I cannot like a hero like this.