Author Description

What happens to the woman on the outside when the man she loves is locked away? "Other Side of the Sentence" follows Asia's past and present, generational trauma, and emotional turning points to tell a powerful, layered story of a woman shaped by incarceration-before she ever fell in love. A wife and mother navigating love, loyalty, and loneliness while her husband serves a long prison bid. As the years pass, she's pulled between the weight of her vows and the demands of the real world: raising kids alone, dodging temptation, chasing dreams, and surviving the streets that don't wait for anybody. This isn't just his sentence. It's hers too. Asia never thought she'd be the woman who stayed. She swore she'd never be her mama, or those girls writing letters and waiting by the phone. Until she met him-the man who made her bend every rule she made for herself. Against everything she believed, Asia stayed. She married him in county jail. Promised to ride out a two-year bid. Was it love or loyalty? But when he came home, he wasn't the man she married-maybe he never was. Infidelity, betrayal, and abuse shattered the picture she once held onto.