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..