The Innkeeper — Keaton D. Winter

"It is a plain and simple truth that one must endure the harshness of thorns in order to fully appreciate the beauty of a rose." So begins the tale of Artemaeus Barsoul, a cantankerous and greedy old innkeeper whose life is dedicated to the collecting of coins and the ignorance of the needy around him. Then one night, the spirit of his long-dead sister appears to him and offers a chance at redemption available only through the visits of the spirits of the past, present, and future of a man known only to him as "the Shepherd." From the crowded streets of Bethlehem to the Sea of Galilee, and from the Garden of Gethsemane to the hill at Calvary, Artemaeus follows in the footsteps of this wondrous Shepherd in this novel reminiscent of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and begs the reader to ask themselves whether or not they will Let Him In.