<p>Edinburgh, 1917: Headstrong Highland lass MaryStewart is a vibrant woman forced into the world’s oldest profession in orderto provide for her ailing father and younger sister in the city’s Old Town.When her uncle, a well-to-do solicitor with political aspirations, thinks thather presence might impede his lofty ambitions he gives her a way out withdignity: a one-way ticket to the frontier town of Anyox, British Columbia,where nurses are needed to care for injured soldiers returning from the war.</p><p>Maryagrees to depart Scotland and leaves her sister in the care of her uncle, butfinds that a past like hers is not easy to escape, and that living on thefrontier has more challenges than even the darkest streets of Old Town. Shemust survive by her quick intelligence, but that is a quality that few womenwere allowed to reveal.</p><p>In his historical epic <i>Dominionof Mercy</i>, Danial Neil gives vivid life to the gritty world of anearly twentieth-century mining town and a radiant protagonist who illuminatesits dark corners with her insight, empathy, and bold spirit.</p><p>Edinburgh, 1917: Headstrong Highland lass MaryStewart is a vibrant woman forced into the world’s oldest profession in orderto provide for her ailing father and younger sister in the city’s Old Town.When her uncle, a well-to-do solicitor with political aspirations, thinks thather presence might impede his lofty ambitions he gives her a way out withdignity: a one-way ticket to the frontier town of Anyox, British Columbia,where nurses are needed to care for injured soldiers returning from the war.</p><p>Maryagrees to depart Scotland and leaves her sister in the care of her uncle, butfinds that a past like hers is not easy to escape, and that living on thefrontier has more challenges than even the darkest streets of Old Town. Shemust survive by her quick intelligence, but that is a quality that few womenwere allowed to reveal.</p><p>In his historical epic <i>Dominionof Mercy</i>, Danial Neil gives vivid life to the gritty world of anearly twentieth-century mining town and a radiant protagonist who illuminatesits dark corners with her insight, empathy, and bold spirit.</p>