He is serving thirty years to life for a murder he did not commit. She is the only person alive who can prove it.
Brooklyn, 1994. Dinasia Whitman and Tislam Parker came up inside the New York State foster care system — passed between houses that were never theirs, counted as case numbers before they were counted as kids. What they had was each other. Two teenagers who decided they would be family, because nobody else was going to do it for them.
They had four months until graduation and a plan to get out.
Then a body goes down in the street outside the Pink Houses — and every piece of evidence points at Tislam.
A jury convicts him in three days. A judge gives him thirty years to life. And Shateek Davis — charming, well-connected, and in love with Dinasia since the day he first laid eyes on her — waits exactly as long as he needs to before he puts a ring on her finger.
Five years later, she has built a life on top of the wreckage.
A psychology degree. A supervisor's post at Queens County Social Services. A house in Nassau County. A husband who worships the ground she walks on. Dinasia has done what survivors do — she has moved forward, and she has stopped saying Tislam's name out loud.
Inside Green Haven Correctional Facility, Tislam is learning something nobody warns you about: in a maximum-security prison, innocence is not a shield. It is a liability. To stay alive he becomes a man he would not recognize — and the hardest part is that it works.
Then she hears about a videotape.
An elderly woman on the fourth floor used to sit in her window and film the block, the way lonely people do. She was filming the night it happened.
Somewhere, that tape still exists.
Dinasia has spent five years believing what she was told. Now she has to find out whether any of it was true — and every step she takes toward that tape takes her further from the life she built, and closer to people who would rather see it burn.
Because the evidence is not the hard part. Surviving long enough to use it is.
A crime thriller with something real underneath it.
No Other Love is a story about wrongful conviction written from the inside out — about how the machinery actually works, who feeds it, and who profits when an innocent man disappears into it. It is also a love story, and an unusually honest one: about what loyalty is worth when the bill finally arrives, and how much a person is willing to lose for someone the world has already written off.
Dinasia is one of the most formidable women in contemporary urban fiction — fierce, disciplined, self-made, and carrying a wound she refuses to let define her. Tislam is a portrait of endurance that only a writer who has lived it could draw.
From an author who has lived this story.
Divine G — John "Divine G" Whitfield — is an Oscar-nominated adapted screenwriter and executive producer whose own true story is the basis for the A24 film Sing Sing, in which he is portrayed by Colman Domingo. He is a PEN Award-winning playwright, the author of eight published novels, and a co-founder of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, the prison arts program at the heart of that film.
He began writing while serving time for a conviction he has spent his life fighting. When he writes a man doing thirty-to-life for something he did not do, that is not research. It is testimony.
Why buy it here
Every copy ordered from this page is signed by the author and ships directly from Divine G Entertainment. Buying direct means more of what you pay reaches the writer instead of the platform — and it is the only place you can get a signed edition.
Paperback · 293 pages · 5.5" × 8.5" · Divine G Entertainment
Every copy ships from Divine G Entertainment in Brooklyn — not a warehouse. Add a signed and personalized copy at checkout.
Standard — $15.00
Signed & Personalized by Divine G — $25.00
Content note: contains depictions of sexual assault, prison violence, and drug use.
He is serving thirty years to life for a murder he did not commit. She is the only person alive who can prove it.
Brooklyn, 1994. Dinasia Whitman and Tislam Parker came up inside the New York State foster care system — passed between houses that were never theirs, counted as case numbers before they were counted as kids. What they had was each other. Two teenagers who decided they would be family, because nobody else was going to do it for them.
They had four months until graduation and a plan to get out.
Then a body goes down in the street outside the Pink Houses — and every piece of evidence points at Tislam.
A jury convicts him in three days. A judge gives him thirty years to life. And Shateek Davis — charming, well-connected, and in love with Dinasia since the day he first laid eyes on her — waits exactly as long as he needs to before he puts a ring on her finger.
Five years later, she has built a life on top of the wreckage.
A psychology degree. A supervisor's post at Queens County Social Services. A house in Nassau County. A husband who worships the ground she walks on. Dinasia has done what survivors do — she has moved forward, and she has stopped saying Tislam's name out loud.
Inside Green Haven Correctional Facility, Tislam is learning something nobody warns you about: in a maximum-security prison, innocence is not a shield. It is a liability. To stay alive he becomes a man he would not recognize — and the hardest part is that it works.
Then she hears about a videotape.
An elderly woman on the fourth floor used to sit in her window and film the block, the way lonely people do. She was filming the night it happened.
Somewhere, that tape still exists.
Dinasia has spent five years believing what she was told. Now she has to find out whether any of it was true — and every step she takes toward that tape takes her further from the life she built, and closer to people who would rather see it burn.
Because the evidence is not the hard part. Surviving long enough to use it is.
A crime thriller with something real underneath it.
No Other Love is a story about wrongful conviction written from the inside out — about how the machinery actually works, who feeds it, and who profits when an innocent man disappears into it. It is also a love story, and an unusually honest one: about what loyalty is worth when the bill finally arrives, and how much a person is willing to lose for someone the world has already written off.
Dinasia is one of the most formidable women in contemporary urban fiction — fierce, disciplined, self-made, and carrying a wound she refuses to let define her. Tislam is a portrait of endurance that only a writer who has lived it could draw.
From an author who has lived this story.
Divine G — John "Divine G" Whitfield — is an Oscar-nominated adapted screenwriter and executive producer whose own true story is the basis for the A24 film Sing Sing, in which he is portrayed by Colman Domingo. He is a PEN Award-winning playwright, the author of eight published novels, and a co-founder of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, the prison arts program at the heart of that film.
He began writing while serving time for a conviction he has spent his life fighting. When he writes a man doing thirty-to-life for something he did not do, that is not research. It is testimony.
Why buy it here
Every copy ordered from this page is signed by the author and ships directly from Divine G Entertainment. Buying direct means more of what you pay reaches the writer instead of the platform — and it is the only place you can get a signed edition.
Paperback · 293 pages · 5.5" × 8.5" · Divine G Entertainment
Every copy ships from Divine G Entertainment in Brooklyn — not a warehouse. Add a signed and personalized copy at checkout.
Standard — $15.00
Signed & Personalized by Divine G — $25.00
Content note: contains depictions of sexual assault, prison violence, and drug use.
