A Season of Pebbles — Roger E. Bruner

When eighteen-year-old Kim Hartlinger trips on some pebbles in the San Diego airport, her new friend Aleesha cautions her that Christians are susceptible to a “Season of Pebbles,” a series of problems they can't “prance” victoriously across without a lot of God's help. Kim doesn't take Aleesha's words seriously. Now that the mission trip is over, she's sure God will let her lead a normal life. Without even small problems. She flies home expecting only the best. Immediately upon Kim's arrival, her life starts taking turns for the worse. An accident. Grief. Guilt. Horrible nightmares. Debilitating fatigue. Jealousy. And fear. Fear of admitting the truth about the accident to her father. When Kim and her friends are invited to help build a visitor hostel for a prison in the California mountains, she springs to life again. But guilt and nightmares follow her to California. And prison ministry has pebbles of its own. Kim can't prance across the pebbles in her path without her Heavenly Father's help. And her father's help as well.