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

The ringing telephone interrupted his solitude. Eron leaned over to pick it up after the first ring.


“Oh, hi, Uncle George, how are you?”


“Shouldn’t you be on your honeymoon?” Eron chuckled. He wrapped his fingers in the cord to stave off the nervous energy that suddenly burst through him.


George parroted Eron’s laugh. “We’re getting ready to leave tomorrow for a short trip. Listen, you disappeared yesterday, son, and I just wanted to make sure you were all right.”


The fear and worry that Eron had worked hard to suppress roared inside him. “Uh, I’m fine.”


Eron had justified that no one missed them except their dates.


“All right, I just wanted to check on you and hear it for myself.”


Chapter 11