No Other Love

By Divine G.

An innocent man is serving thirty-to-life. The woman who loved him is married to the man who put him there.

Brooklyn, 1994.

Dinasia Whitman and Tislam Parker grew up together in the New York State foster care system with nothing but each other. No parents. No safety net. Two teenagers who decided they would be each other's family because nobody else volunteered. They vowed that there would be no other love.

With graduation four months away, they have a plan: leave Brooklyn behind and build a life together.

Then Dinasia's foster brother is murdered in the street.

The evidence points to Tislam.

A jury convicts him in three days, and a judge sentences him to thirty years to life.

While Tislam is sent to Green Haven Correctional Facility to survive a prison system where innocence offers no protection, Dinasia is left behind to pick up the pieces. And Shateek Davis-the charming, well-connected man who has wanted Dinasia since the day he first saw her-finally gets the opportunity he's been waiting for.

Five years later, Dinasia has built the life she once dreamed about: a psychology degree, a career with Queens County Social Services, a home in Nassau County, and a husband who worships her.

But Tislam has never stopped fighting to prove he was framed.

Then a dead woman's videotape surfaces.

And Dinasia discovers that someone else is willing to do whatever it takes to keep its secrets buried.

No Other Love is a gripping crime thriller about wrongful conviction, buried secrets, loyalty, betrayal, and the devastating price of living with a lie. At its center is a question that has no easy answer:

How much are you willing to lose for someone the world has already written off?

Set against the streets, institutions, and neighborhoods of 1990s New York, this is a story about the machinery that can swallow an innocent person-and the people who must decide whether to protect the lives they've built or risk everything to expose the truth.

For book clubs and reading groups, No Other Love offers plenty to debate: the ethics of survival, the obligations we owe to the people we leave behind, the meaning of loyalty, and whether justice is possible when the system has already decided who is guilty.

About the Author

John "Divine G" Whitfield is an Oscar-nominated adapted screenwriter, executive producer, PEN Award-winning playwright, and author of eight published novels. His extraordinary true story is the basis for the A24 film Sing Sing, in which he is portrayed by Colman Domingo.
Whitfield spent years incarcerated for a wrongful conviction and began writing while in prison. His firsthand understanding of incarceration, wrongful conviction, and the struggle for justice gives No Other Love an authenticity that cannot be researched.

A full-length novel of 295 pages-recommended for readers of urban fiction, African American crime drama, wrongful-conviction thrillers, and literary suspense.

Content note: contains depictions of sexual assault, prison violence, and drug use.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940765099
• ISBN13: 9781940765099
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Divine G Entertainment
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"