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

When she arrived, she spoke in a quiet tone. “The only thing you have for the rest of the week is Friday morning’s staff meeting. You need the rest of the day off?”


Eron smiled. He appreciated the fact that she had learned to anticipate his needs and built the time into his schedule. This type of desertion from the office had nearly cost him his job when he first started at the ACLU.


“Yes, I need to go to the library to study.”


She winked at him. “I’ll let anyone know who asks.”


Eron left the office and drove out of the city, back to Long Island. It wasn’t the trial from which he needed the break, it was himself.


Chapter 12