THE NEW REVEREND, by Allan Ishmael Young Young Reverend Lincoln Davis Hawk - an ex-soldier and ex-drunk with a shameful past, finds romance and rancor in the Bible Belt. He is now an ordained minister working among the needy and downtrodden, but not in a church - but is assigned, against his will, to return to the hometown he dislikes, to take over a problematical church. After meeting a host of characters, including the young and beautiful, but enigmatic church organist, and a self-styled "Preacher hater," he is startled to learn that all of his predecessors have died mysteriously. Now, not only must he provide spiritual guidance for his congregation, but he must also race against time to unravel all the mysteries before he becomes the next victim.