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

Garrett probing for their next meeting comforted Eron. He’d nearly messed the whole afternoon up, blurting out he wasn’t homosexual again. As much as Garrett seemed irritated with him earlier, now it was as if he didn’t want to go. Garrett got out of the car and walked into the bank. Eron watched as best he could through the mirrors in his own car.


What I wouldn’t give to touch that ass again. 5


After the pallbearers loaded Grant Lassiter’s casket into the hearse, the friends and family attending the funeral broke up into small groups and climbed into their own cars. Although Garrett hadn’t known Grant very well, he held an appreciation for human life since his mother passed away


“You want to ride with me?” Eron asked Garrett.


“Sure. Let me make sure my dad has a ride.”


Garrett treasured the comfortable silence as they drove to the cemetery.


Chapter 17