In June 1966, ACLU attorney Eron Lassiter attends his uncle’s wedding and makes an unsettling discovery. Though Eron had bowed to family pressure and planned a potential marriage, his long-ignored attraction to other men roars to life when Garrett Emerson, the bride’s nephew, captures his attention.<br><br>After serving in the Korean War and going to college later than his peers, upwardly mobile Garrett now works as a loan officer at a local bank. For his girlfriend -- fiancée in her mind -- Garrett can’t climb fast enough. But none of that matters to Eron, and maybe that’s why Garrett’s so drawn to him.<br><br>Together, can Eron and Garrett find happiness amidst the pervasive culture of propriety, honor, and expectation of the 1960s?

Need Your Love

“Oh Garrett, it’s just lovely. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have our reception here?”


Unpleasant emotion churned in Garrett’s gut at Johnette’s mention of their own possible wedding. They’d gone steady for a few months, but since their first date, she had mentioned getting married at every opportunity. He didn’t blame her. She was past thirty and most of her friends had married right after college.


While not entirely opposed to having a wife, two kids, and a house on Long Island, that dream had eluded him thus far. Whenever he pictured the dream house, it was a small inn, converted from a huge, old house, furnished with all the treasures that he found at the flea market on the weekends.


Chapter 3