Book excerpt: Facing the past… To build a future together! Part of Secrets of a Victorian Household. Silas Fairclough’s new life in America is dramatically changed when he learns his mentor’s dying wish is for him to wed his ward. Silas’s marriage to beautiful, quiet Lady Mary Weddell will be a practical, sensible arrangement. But now his family in England need him—and that means taking his bride back to the land of scandal and ruin she’d left behind…