The Reluctant Reverend

Young Reverend Lincoln Davis Hawkaan ex-soldier and ex-drunk with a shameful past, who is now an ordained minister working among the needy and downtrodden, but not in a churchais assigned, against his will, to return to Pennington, 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 apreacher hater, a 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.