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 revelation warmed him from the inside out.


Eron obtained a table. The innkeeper had said this place would be quieter than the normal Friday evening tea and he was right. Only one other couple, appeared as young as Eron and him, and they were women, while male and mixed couples filled the other tables. Garrett fought with himself not to stare at the two women. While accepting himself and Eron as a couple had come after a considerable battle with himself, he’d never considered two women might feel the same way about each other. He had so much to learn…He had worked hard to consider Eron and him a couple, let alone two women. The rest of the restaurant was filled with male and mixed couples.


“Look, Eron, that could be us in thirty years.”


Chapter 37