The Narrow Way

The Fig Tree Series is about what happens when Jesus refuses to let a life end where the damage began.

These books were not written from a place of comfort or distance. They were written from inside survival, where I had to endure nearly a decade of violent and horrific sexual, physical and emotional abuse as an eight-year-old child through young adulthood.

This series exists because God does not abandon the wounded, and He does not ask us to pretend that pain didn’t happen in order to follow Him.

In the Bible, fig trees are never just trees!

They are signs of fruit and failure, of waiting and judgment, of mercy and truth. Jesus spoke directly to fig trees. He confronted what looked alive but wasn’t. He also told a story about a barren tree that was spared, not because it had proven itself, but because a gardener asked for more time to tend it.

The Fig Tree Series lives there.

It is the story of being damaged early, silenced often, and still kept alive by the mercy of God. It is the story of being spared when the ending should have been different. It is the story of a God who digs into hard soil and says, “Not yet. There is still life here.”

These books tell the truth about what abuse does to a child’s mind and spirit and how fear can live longer than the event itself. One story talks about a funeral.

On the page, it may sound like I was there. But I don’t remember attending a funeral at all. What I remember is being threatened with death like story reveals… so often, that it took up space in my mind. I was told again and again how my story would end until the fear became a scene that played over and over in my mind.

The funeral was real.
But the memory was shaped by threat.

This is what trauma does. It doesn’t always leave clear memories, it leaves expectations of harm. It teaches a child to live as if death is already waiting.

And still, Jesus was there.

The Fig Tree Series talks about faith lived the hard way. It speaks honestly about loving Jesus while grieving what should never have happened. About learning to trust God when His name was used to cause harm. About forgiveness that is slow, layered, and deeply misunderstood. About faith that survives anger, questions, and truth.

This is not a series about how faith fixes everything.

It is a testimony that faith can hold everything!

These books are for the ones who endured.
For those harmed as children and told to stay quiet.
For those who love Jesus but still carry heavy questions.
For those who wonder if healing is possible after so many years.
For those walking the narrow way, where truth costs something, but freedom is real.

The Fig Tree Series does not offer easy answers.
It does not rush redemption.
It does not soften the Gospel to make it comfortable.

It points to Jesus who meets people in the dirt, at graves, and in the aftermath, and stays.

The fig tree withered.

But she lived.

And that survival itself is a testimony to the faithfulness of God!

Love you all,

-Annie Stewart Lambert