High Calling

About the Book

            Ronald Holland was a boisterous young man who worked in the logging camps and ran with a bunch of rowdies in the remote North Carolina mountains.

            It was the 1920s — the Prohibition era. But that didn't prevent Ronald and his pals from getting hold of all the liquor they wanted, which was a lot.

            Even after he married and his wife gave birth to a sickly daughter, Ronald devoted most of his spare time to frolicking with his gang of merry-makers.

            Then, a strange thing happened . . .

About the Author

Michael Rouse, a North  Carolina native, has been writing since he was a teen-ager. He is a retired newspaper editor living in Walnut Creek, a village near Goldsboro, N.C.

            His career included editorships at the Goldsboro News-Argus, the Fayetteville Observer, the Durham Morning Herald, the Washington Daily News and The Associated Press. He has been presented several  N.C, Press Association Awards for writing and public service and a North Carolina Writers Roundtable Award for children's fiction.

            Mike is a deacon at Goldsboro's Madison Avenue Baptist Church. His wife is Billie Holland Rouse — Ronald Holland's oldest surviving daughter.

            His son, David, is the information technology manager at the Goldsboro News-Argus, and his daughter, Jane Ellison, is a stay-at-home mother living in Wilmington, N.C.