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 had not known happiness like the joy he had experienced with Eron over the last month. At least once a week they arranged a date. Most of the time Eron met him at his apartment. Once Garrett went into the city and they went to a gay bar after their afternoon of lovemaking.


Theirs wasn’t an ideal situation, but it was probably the best for which he could hope. As if his prophecy the night at the country club had come true, Garrett kept up the appearance of dating Johnette while secretly stealing away to meet Eron.


Eron woke up slowly. Instead of Garrett, he cuddled a pillow. He searched around the foreign room for the alarm clock to see it was three-thirty. He had slept two hours.


As Eron’s eyes adjusted to the dimly lit room, he found Garrett sitting on the steps outside the French doors. He grabbed the other robe from the bathroom, his cigarettes and joined Garrett outside.


“Hello, sleepyhead,” Garrett said as Eron sat down.


Chapter 35