This book includes the first two volumes in the "The Adventures of Roland McCray" series with minor revisions and corrections but no additional material added. These are not adventure stories in the action-packed thriller style, but rather the little, yet important, adventures experienced in every moment of life. This saga of Roland McCray's adventures begins in the 1960's and recalls a simpler time to be a kid, when children played outdoors for hours instead of spending hours on their smart phones, tablets and video games, and follows Roland through those angst-ridden teenage years when he is no longer a child but not yet an adult. Roland learns the pain of loss and feels that joyful rush of first love. He comes to understand the need of forgiveness and acceptance in an often confusing world. As a teen, Roland is enticed by more temptations than ever, but he believes in the quiet morality of his grandfather's belief, that faith isn't a thing to be displayed to the world but is a quiet certainty that all things work for the good of those who seek good. Roland holds fast to that faith to overcome the beliefs imposed on him by the church his entire life and as a guide to his own Path to God. Each chapter is a complete story, but taken together, Roland McCray's experiences form a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. This book will quickly pull you into Roland's world and the struggles of being a teenager, a nostalgic tale of a young man growing up in the south and losing his religion to find God, but is ultimately a satisfying and truly inspiring story that will leave you with a new view of the beauty that is life ""I very much enjoyed this book. I thought the prose was excellent and the storyline deep. A child growing up in the South offers a unique look at the culture of the area in the 1970s. The author did a wonderful job of portraying this in all its complexities." "There's something soothing about reading one of Roland's stories, like a reverie of my own childhood, seamlessly allowing us to stand on the fringe and enjoy watching Roland grow." "These stories are woven in such a way that you feel what Roland feels- not all lightness and brightness, but more like real life remembered in all of its shaded details.""