Tahoma’s
Trophy
Ruth M. Anderson
Picturesque Meersen, Washington, situated on the banks of a river in the shadow of Mt. Rainier, offers an idyllic setting
for a recent Air Force Widow. Meg Panders accepts the job of head librarian in the town, hoping to find tranquility as she
recovers from her loss. But Meersen’s townspeople are living anything but utopian lives. Nor is their location paradise,
as Meg learns when Mount Rainier, an active volcano, begins to reawaken. The town is caught up in a wrenching dilemma—evacuate
the town based on scientific forecasts, or stay and risk the loss of life, livelihood, and homes.
Mount Rainier, or Tahoma as Native Americans call it, has erupted and unleashed enormous landslides several times in
its long history, most recently about 500 years ago. Scientists tell us that it’s not a question of whether the largest
volcano in the Cascade Mountain Range will activate again, but when that will occur. Yet, development continues to crowd the
decaying mountain. Tahoma’s Trophy, fiction today, could be tomorrow’s headline news. Fiction, published by Poetic
License, 6x9, 268 pages, $21.00, ISBN# 0967416418.
Ruth Anderson, a retired United States Air Force officer, is the author/co-author of several works of non-fiction,
including Barbed Wire For Sale, The Hungarian Transition to Democracy, and Puyallup, Pioneer Paradise.
Tahoma’s Trophy is her first novel. She lives in Puyallup, Washington with her husband, Andy.
To contact Ruth Anderson:
RuthMAnderson@comcast.net
