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

He tried to wash away the desperation on his face with cold water. After he put the towel back on the bar, he still saw the same sad man staring back at him in the mirror. Ironic that they’d gathered to celebrate a happy occasion. He ached everywhere, the sorrow of finality greater than even after his parents died.


Garrett was right, he’d muddled things up from the start. He had to prove to Garrett he meant business. Not just so they could stand each other, but so that they could stand together.


When he told Garrett he knew about his looking at property, something changed in Garrett’s eyes that gave him hope that maybe he could mend things once and for all.


He should have followed Garrett’s lead and broken up with Mary Ellen after their Provincetown trip. If he could convince Garrett to leave with him after the wedding, there’d not only be the girls but also Allen and Elsie affected by their actions.


Chapter 66