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

Eron shook his head as sadness tugged at his heart. He took another drag on his cigarette and tucked away the sound of Garrett in the throes of passion. He tossed the cigarette off the deck, into the yard and stared into the emptiness that surrounded the house.


Could he endure a lifetime of such events, his and Mary Ellen’s presence required, because that’s what family does? He and Garrett would run into each other, comment on the cuteness of their children, maybe make play dates and plan for his daughter to marry Garrett’s son.


What are you thinking? Our kids will be raised as first cousins.


Maybe they’d all vacation together in the coming years. How very civilized they’d be. He and Mary Ellen would argue discreetly, but never broach the one subject that formed the basis of their troubles. No, they’d skirt the issue of Eron’s fundamental misery, because to shine a light on that would…


Chapter 64