Resistance
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4.0 • 29 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Courtney Merrick has come home to Port Russell to lick her wounds and has no intention of falling in love ever again. When she runs into her childhood friend, and secret first love, Josh Cameron, as she's bailing her grandparents out of jail following their arrest at the old growth logging protests, all her careful plans and the comfortable life she's built since she returned home start to crumble.
Josh Cameron, now an RCMP officer, has returned to Port Russell, his true home, hoping to his new posting will allow him to reconnect with the only girl he's ever loved, but she's resistant to his charms. When his brother and father's dubious business practices escalate the local old-growth protests, it throws Port Russell into chaos and Josh and Courtney team up to uncover the what's really going on.
As they work to uncover the truth, can Courtney continue to resist falling in love?
Resistance, book one in the Port Russell Romance series, is a contemporary, small town, friends to lovers, fade to black romance set in the old-growth forests and the wild west coast of Vancouver Island, BC..
Customer Reviews
Resisting a second chance at love
This was a very engaging tale mixing the romance of childhood friends/first loves with a dash of action and intrigue involving the potential destruction of old growth forest. I enjoyed it very much. Courtney was back home in small-town Port Russell teaching elementary school. Protests against old growth logging in the area led to her former best friend (and first love), Josh, now an RCMP officer, being assigned to the area. Reluctantly at first, Courtney begins to let Josh back into her life, but the situation is more complicated than she could have imagined, with ties to Josh’s estranged family. It was really interesting to see some of the inside of the protests and glimpses of the machinations occurring on the business side. It was almost a little hard for my anxiety to read about some of the things Courtney did as part of the protests. The romance was great, building on their past connection, it built as they spent time together, first as friends. I really like both Courtney and Josh. And there were also many interesting secondary characters. The setting was fantastic. It’s not hard to imagine people fighting to preserve it. This is a fade-to-black romance, with intimacy occurring but details off the page. There is some innuendo as well. There is a moderate amount of harsh language, most mild to moderate, but a few instances of strong harsh language.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Slow, ponderous, juvenile
As a person from the Westcoast, knowing the area the author has written about, the story was slow and painful. Sure it was fiction, but ridiculously close to the real names and occurrences. The characters were choppy and not relatable. I would not recommend this book…..and definitely not to readers from the Westcoast l