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

There was no identification found on the person and there are no suspects in the case. Police speculate the young man is likely a homosexual prostitute…


Garrett stopped reading and admired the police sketch of the victim. He was young, eighteen or nineteen, no older than twenty. At least in the sketch, he was a nice looking young man.


When he saw Eron earlier in the day, hope surged in him that maybe they could work things out, even just be friends. After his dad’s story on the way home, and the newspaper article, Garrett resigned himself that Eron was right.


As much as he tried to hang on to the memories of their trip to Provincetown, it was all a fairy tale. They had met people making it in the world, but those people didn’t have the obstacles in front of them that he and Eron had. Bob and Dennis ran away to the war and alienated themselves from their families, James and Todd to the city.


Chapter 60