CORRIE STEPHENS is eager to learn about ranch life, but reluctant to become involved; it s just not worth the heartache. Rancher J McClure, on the other hand, has been alone too long. Tenderfoot draws the reader into the story s strong emotions based on family, love, and the first-hand adventure of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. A romantic suspense story, Tenderfoot takes place on a working cattle ranch in 1980, the year the world remembers for the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens. Although the story is fiction, incidents relating to the mountain are true and accurately portrayed.