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

“I didn’t realize you were ready to take that step.”


“It’s one of those things I think about in my head and intend to tell you, but never do. When…when are we going to get together again?”


Eron squeezed Garrett’s hand. “How about next weekend? Why don’t you come over and I’ll make dinner?”


“Maybe I’ll give her the weekend off. You want to plan to stay over?”


“That sounds good. Will that be our weekends? Quiet dinners in?”


Eron glanced over at Garrett and gave him a playfully annoying grin. “We could work on your golf game?”


“Or you could come and help out at the flea market.”


“I can always use the extra muscle to load furniture.” Garrett squeezed his flexed bicep.


“We could spend a day at the flea market and a day on the golf course in the warm weather, then dinner at one or the other’s place.”


“Maybe every once in a while we can go venture into the city?”


Chapter 47