Dean Frech

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 wedding music started and everyone’s attention focused on the wedding party coming up the aisle.


As he’d practiced over the prior six months, Eron put himself in the present, at the ceremony. Halfway through, he glanced at Garrett, standing beside his father, straight and tall like a Ken doll. Blond hair, blue eyes, and tan skin, Garrett looked every bit the blue blood he wasn’t.


“…Allen and Elsie, remember your happiness in matters that affect the heart…”


Eron rarely got emotional at weddings, but the music, the beautiful words of the ceremony, and Garrett in his line of vision, all chipped away at the tough wall that he’d built around his heart. The same wall that two years before, Garrett had broken through.


I should have asked him to run away back in March.


Chapter 65