Dominion of Mercy

by Danial Neil

A feisty lass crosses an ocean and a continent to begin a new life, but her past is baggage she still must carry.

Edinburgh, 1917: Headstrong Highland lass Mary Stewart is a vibrant woman forced into the world’s oldest profession in order to 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 that her presence might impede his lofty ambitions he gives her a way out with dignity: 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. Mary agrees to depart Scotland and leaves her sister in the care of her uncle, but finds that a past like hers is not easy to escape, and that living on the frontier has more challenges than even the darkest streets of Old Town. She must survive by her quick intelligence, but that is a quality that few women were allowed to reveal. Danial Neil’s historical epic Dominion of Mercy combines the gritty feel and attention to detail of HBO’s Deadwood with the Canadian sensibility of Guy Vanderhaeghe’s frontier trilogy.

Trade Paperback / April 1, 2021

isbn 10: 1-77439-020-5

isbn 13: 978-177439-020-7

BISAC 1: FIC014000 BISAC 2: FIC019000 BISAC 3: FIC066000 248 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $20.95 cdn $15.95 usd

“This is a kind of anti-epic, challenging and provocative.”

~ Barbara Carey, Toronto Star

About The Author

Danial Neil is the author of four previous novels. He won the Poetry Prize at the Surrey International Writers’ Conference four times. His fiction unites the reader with his characters, and leaves one with an indelible presence of the world we live in. Danial lives in Oliver in the South Okanagan of British Columbia. • Edinburgh, Scotland, and Anyox, BC

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

• Book will appeal to fans of historical fiction and fans of strong female protagonists.

MARKETING PLAN

• Early digital ARC and international press release mailout. • Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instragram, and Twitter pages. • Podcast reading/interview posted on iTunes, RSS feed, Facebook, and NeWest website. • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television. • Submit to all eligible awards. • Ads in subTerrain, Alberta Views (Read Alberta Books Campaign), Prairie Books Now, CNQ: Canadian Notes and Queries, Glass Buffalo, PRISM international, and Grain Magazine. • Launch events in Vancouver, Victoria, and Kelowna, as well as

MARKETS

• National trade: historical fiction • US and UK trade: historical fiction online.

COMPARISON TITLES

• Glory by Gillian Wigmore (978-1-926743-98-1, Invisible Publishing, 2017) • The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne A. Johnston (978-0-676978-16-2, Knopf Canada, 2007) • The Birth House by Ami McKay (978-0-676977-73-8, Knopf Canada, 2007)