In Deadly Shore, the three bridges to Cape Cod are brought down by terrorists, trapping residents and tourists on the Cape over 4th of July weekend, with a major hurricane barreling up the coast.

For those readers who have never visited Cape Cod, I thought I would give you a visual feel by showing you pictures of the bridges (still standing, that is).

The first picture shows the Sagamore Bridge (the bridge near the house of the book club women in the book), and the second is the Bourne Bridge, with the train bridge off in the distance.

I spent almost 30 years travelling across the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges. When the bridges were shut down due to high winds, winter storms, and the occasional hurricane, it was easy to feel isolated, which I later passed on to the characters in the book.