On a New Years Eve, three women were brought into a small but new hospital in Southern Utah, the Iron County Regional. The first was Marcia Davenport, a sixty-five-year-old college professor, injured in a ski accident. The second was Eleanor Fraser, a twenty-nine-year-old abused housewife and mother of two children. Her husband, Nicholas Fraser, in a drunken rage, tried to kill her. The third is a society wife and mother, Patricia Novak, wife of Michael Novak, a land developer with property in several states in the western part of the United States. She collapsed while eating dinner at a local Italian restaurant, and she is unresponsive. All three have been brought in through a heavy winter storm.