Do-si-do by Dorothy A. Bell

No, Gabriel Buxton didn’t think his brother Van exaggerated in his letter urging Gabe to “get home before all hell breaks loose.” Foolishly, Gabe let slip his plan to go home to his fiancée, Edditha Millican, and his future mother-in-law, Adella. Now he had no way to keep them from discovering the shady past of Hoyt’s Hot Spring, the identity of his nefarious, brutal birth father, and the circumstances of how and where he’d entered this world. But the real threat is Birdie-Alice Bollo, the nuisance from his childhood. All grown up, she could tempt a saint with her luscious body and perky, fiery presence. The plan to conduct a safe and circumspect life with Edditha Millican could be in jeopardy. Yep, this trip home had disaster written all over it.