Monday, August 18, 2025

Dangerous Detour Tour & Giveaway

About the Book

Book: Dangerous Detour (Discipleship Series, Book 2)

Author: Gail Pallotta

Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense

Release Date: March 11, 2025

Four people face a winter storm in the wilderness. Two have lost their way. One has lost his purpose and one has lost his soul.

Headed home for Christmas vacation, Ruthie, a quiet professor, crosses paths with Moose, a football coach, on an icy, blocked road in Western North Carolina. Amid a winter storm, they unknowingly take shelter in a killer’s hideout.

Escaping under fire, they flee into a frozen, snow-covered forest. Trying to find their way out and shake the murderer, they dodge bullets each day until the temperature drops and the world turns quiet. Then, they set up camps to survive in the wilderness. Even though they grow attracted to each other, neither admits it until each of them suffers a frightening injury. Finally, they head to a house Ruthie sees in the distance.

Will they meet a new friend, or a foe?

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About the Author

Award-winning author Gail Pallotta’s a wife, mom, swimmer and bargain shopper who loves God, beach sunsets and getting together with friends and family. She’s a 2017 Reader’s Favorite Book Awards winner and a TopShelf 2020 Book Awards Finalist. She recently received a Top Author Certificate for her new book, Hidden Danger. She’s published seven books, poems, short stories and two-hundred articles. Some of her articles appear in anthologies while two are in museums.

More from Gail

People often refer to modern times as the post-Christian era. We’re blessed with wonderful ministers, missionaries and other Christian leaders. Unfortunately, many people never attend a church or any Christian gathering. Yet church goers see others on a daily basis—in a long line in the grocery, at a restaurant, a company or organizational meeting. How can we, Christians who have no formal ministerial training, help spread the Gospel?

Some clergy say unchurched neighbors who watch Christians get up and go to church every Sunday grow curious about Christianity. A man (I’ll call him Joe) recently wandered in a store looking at the merchandise and humming a hymn. A stranger asked Joe about the song. Joe ended up talking to the man about his faith and his church. Another person was asked how he and his wife had stayed married for so many years. He said, “We go to church together.” That’s a loaded statement with so many churches going in different directions. However, the conversation led to a discussion of a Jesus-centered church. The teaching and sermons there apply what Jesus taught about living a godly life rather than re-shaping his Gospel to suit our advantage in worldly situations. It’s often little opportunities we take advantage of that speak to a person. All of the above stayed on my mind for a long time. Usually, when something nags me, I write about it. Thus, a Discipleship Series began. Dangerous Detour is book two.

MY REVIEW

Stranded in a car in a snowstorm starts this adventure into the unknown. Now I’m not a huge fan of driving alongside a mountain, but during a snow storm is even more unlikely for me. The author gave me chills as I read how Ruthie finds herself trapped on the edge of a road with her car inches from falling into a death trap. When Ruthie meets Moose, she realizes that her only way to survive is to go with him into the mountains to wait for help.

Moose seems like a great person but I couldn’t help wondering why Ruthie even for a second would go off with a stranger. When your instincts to survive kick in, she had no choice. As they venture off they run into someone who is dangerous. This person is not happy that he has been discovered and now Riley and Moose are on the run from him.

As I read the book I had to question why this stranger would continue to follow our main characters. Wouldn’t it have been easier to just let them go and find another place for to hide from authorities? This tells me that he is desperate and is not thinking clearly. What has he done that would cause him to risk everything to go after Ruthie and Moose? Well folks this shows how the author captures readers with a story intensely written and delves into the mind of someone who will do anything to keep himself from being captured by the police .

The story takes a turn that gives readers an illustration of God placing you in someone’s path for a reason. The ending is where you will find the beauty of faith, forgiveness and hope. I like how the author adds a character that needed guidance. When our characters are trapped will they seek God for direction? I would love to see this book made into a movie.

I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.