This HaBO is from Deborah, who’s been searching for this book for a little while:
I am in desperate need of help because I have been trying to find a book for a couple of years.
The heroine became involved with the hero, who was in covert operations. He was angry and basically told her to leave. She did, but she also knew that she had to stay off the grid.
He found her months later working for a real estate company in the mountains. She helped maintain cabins.
I’m not sure if this is a contemporary romance or more romantic suspense, but working in real estate anywhere seems like a bad “off the grid” move. Or maybe I’m just stuck equating real estate with smiling faces on signs and billboards.
Also…I feel as though we had a similar HaBO about cabin rentals by the heroine.
That’s ringing a bell. Was she called Ginger, and was the boss of the real estate company a lech?
It might be Linda Howard’s “Troublemaker”? That’s ringing a bell somewhere in my subconscious, and it’s also something a Howard manly-man hero would say.
Not Linda Howard’s Troublemaker, I think. The heroine in that book is in law enforcement and while her home is a bit out of town, it’s not off the grid.
I may have read one like this long ago, Sandra Brown?
How about Deacon by Kristen Ashley? Definitely Cabins involved. Or it could be The Gamble, also by Ashley, I think the heroine hides out at the same cabins in the Deacon book.
Definitely not Ashley’s Deacon- the heroine in that book owns the motel which is made up of ‘room’ cabins. Nor is it The Gamble, as that heroine rented a mountain cabin that just happens to still be occupied by its manly man owner.
Was she a handyperson, making repairs, cleaning the cabins, being the on-sire manager?
I have no clue what the book is, but you can work in real estate and not have your face plastered on billboards. I’m an admin at a real estate, I do most of the back end stuff (preparing contracts, setting up appointments, marketing, etc.) for my boss. The only people who know what I look like are the ones who come into the office–so not many people. We do everything online and over the phone. Of course, my email signature has my name on it, but if you’re off the grid, you’ve probably changed your name, so if you’re smart no one would know who you are unless you tell them.
…this is maybe too far off-piste to be useful, but the synopsis sounds a bit like The Spy Who Loved Me. (The book, not the movie: Fleming was so fond* of the book he refused to let Hollywood use anything but the title for the movie.) The heroine, fleeing the aftermath of a bad affair, is holed up care-taking dumpy motel cabins near Lake George. In one night’s Dramatic Events, guess who shows up and gives her a new lease on life?!
*Wikipedia says it was because he didn’t like it, or at least didn’t like the reception it got. I don’t know.
Someday I will master italic tags, but this is not that day. Sorry.