Calico Road (The Staley Family #2)
Anna Jacobs

Meg Staley grows up in Northby, but after the death of her father she gets married young to escape her mother’s cruel ways. She and her husband leave the town, Meg hopes for ever. When tragedy sends her back there to her family she works hard to build a new life, but after a second tragedy she runs away and takes to wandering the moors.
Toby finds her up there one day, cold and starving, and brings her back to the inn. Together they start to find happiness, then danger threatens Toby and the people of Calico. Meg fights with them against an evil man. Will the two find a way to defeat him or will he once again use his power and money to wreak destruction on those who get in his way?