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

“Maybe we can be friends at some point in the future, all of us, but for now, I need some space.”


Garrett grunted as he got up off the floor. “Oh, we can’t avoid each other. I suppose we’ll show up, exchange nervous greetings between the two families. Then we’ll all work real hard to ignore each other the rest of the time.”


Eron chuckled humorlessly. “I suppose so.”


He offered his hand to help Eron get up. “So now what?”


Eron walked back into the entry hall and paused at the baluster at the bottom of the stairs. “I go home and get ready to take Mary Ellen to dinner at the country club. I’m going to ask her to marry me. Monday, I return to work, focus on my career, and live unhappily ever after, just like my parents.”


Garrett leaned in the doorway and wrapped his arms around his stomach. “You’re going to ask her to marry you?”


Eron looked away, his head bowed. “Yeah. That’s the next step.”


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