Evangeline Sixkiller- Collins has had a painful life but she became a doctor and moved her skills to Kalispell, Montana. Not long after moving there she is asked to join a search party for a missing man. She finds him after three hours of searching through snows of the local hills. Also, she finds that he cannot have been dead for longer than a half-hour so she wonders how he got out there and who or what killed him. This gives her a reputation in town as someone who will always find the truth no matter what. And that leads tothe end of The Socrates Option.