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

“A husband who truly loves his wife isn’t going to say no when he sees how much her eyes light up when she shows him the furniture.”


“I suppose so, though obviously I don’t know from experience.”


A throng of looky-loos distracted Garrett. Eron found a lemonade stand and brought back a cup for each of them. He leaned against a tent pole and watched him in action.


During a break from interested customers, Garrett put the lid back on the jar and shook the mixture. The clear liquid and oil mixed together.


“White vinegar and olive oil, Bates swears by it. Says it’s what his mother used on all her woodwork. Now he uses it on his furniture. Bates says that’s what helps this stuff last so long, the natural polish.”


Chapter 28