Detour Summary

     They want what every young couple wants: a child of their own. But Paul and Joanna Breidbart have been trying to conceive for five long years - a torturous process that nearly tore their marriage apart. When they finally decide to adopt the couple descides to fly to war-torn Colombia to adopt a baby girl. Paul is an insurance executive, he routinely calculates the odds of dying in a plane crash or being hit by a bus. Yet all the accident statistics in the world can't prepare him for what is about to happen. Paul and Joanna receive the baby girl of their dreams and their world seems perfect. Then one afternoon they briefly leave their baby daughter alone with their new nanny. When they return, something is disturbingly different about their child...and suddenly everything Paul values is in jeopardy.

Detour Excerpt

     ‘My daughter had a beauty mark on her left leg. And 
she used to smell like . . . well, like her. The beauty mark’s gone. She smells different. I want to know if it’s the same baby.’
     
Okay, Paul thought, Xena, warrior princess, was in full battle mode. The cat had been let out of the bag. Only it wasn’t a cat as much as a Tasmanian devil, something large, carnivorous, and repulsive-looking. Probably the way the two of them looked to Galina right at this moment.

     After all, her back had physically stiffened – one of 
those clichés that evidently rang true. Her gentle gray eyes had turned hard as glass.

     Paul found himself trying to look anywhere but at her, searching for a hole he might be able to hide in. There was a box of cigars sitting on her mantel. It had a photograph of a man in a white panama hat.
 Paul wondered if Galina smoked cigars. A pair of 
brown slippers nestled like cats on her front welcome mat.