Cast of Characters

Angiline (Angie) Bell — waitress from Lubbock

Bill Carter — friend of Tia's and Scott'Dad

Bobbi — one of Angie's roommates

Capt. Amy Carson — Air Force flight surgeon

Cheryl — one of Angie's roommates

Christina Gonzales — Little Tina, daughter of Maria and Tomas Gonzales

Cookie — woman that worked for Sam Miller cooking at the café

Dallas (Dal) Jackson — Terrell County Sheriff

Dan Bell — Angie's father

Dana — Scott's first wife and a bitch of the first water

Darcy Middleton — Motley County Sheriff's Deputy

Delbert Masterson — Justice of the Peace who died of a heart attack

Doc Eller — local doctor sometimes accused of being a Veterinarian and has been known to treat a horse or two.

Don Grimes — took over as Justice of the Peace after Delbert Masterson died

Don Grossman — man who owned the restaurant where Angie used to work

Dr. Marks — Skin specialist in Lubbock

Ebb Miles — Scott's great, great granddad and man that founded the —O ranch

Eduardo Duarte — member of the Mexican National Police force, a Federale

Erica — one of Angie's roommates

Francisca Alavares — One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie was raised on a ranch

Isabel Dias - One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie

J. D. Tatum — Sue Bell's current boyfriend

Jack Rimes — Texas Ranger, friend of Scott

Jake Dingle — bartender at the restaurant where Angie use to work

James Dyers - the man from the Ft. Stockton funeral home

Jason Adams — Terrell County Sheriffs Deputy

Jesse Gomez — hired hand on the Bell ranch until fired by Sue, later rehired by Angie

Josh — Sara's boyfriend

Juan De Silva — man that lived at the end of the block from Silvia's house

Justina Furtado - One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie

Lúcia Mendes - One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie

Magda Costa - One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie

Mari Carter — Bill's wife

Maria Garza — woman that cleaned Scott's house every two weeks.

Maria Rosa Demming — wife of Red

Merilynn Bell — Angie's mother who died when she was a little girl

Michele — the girl who got Angie's roommates to throw her out

Monica Masters — Tom's wife

Mrs. Hattie Logan — Angie's elderly next door neighbor

Natália Teixeira - One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie

Olívia Carvalho - One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie, one of the rape victims

Paulina Sousa - One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie

Rafaela Nunes - One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie, one of the rape victims

Ralph Everett Demming — Red, doctor who practices medicine up and down the Rio Grande to people on both sides

Samantha (Sam) Miller — owner/waitress at the café in Sanderson and long time friend of
Scott Thoreau Miles — last of the Miles family

Sandra Smith — Mrs. Logan's daughter

Sara — college student that worked with Angie at the Restaurant

Sebastiana Cardoso - One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie was raised on a ranch

Sherry White — one of Stan's students

Silvia Guerra — Stan's girl friend

Stan Willus— life long friend who is about to move across the state

Sue Bell — Angie's stepmother

Susan Quinterra — AKA Susie Q, head teller at the bank

Talavera — Mexican family involved in the drug trade

Tia Masters — Tom and Monica's daughter

Tina — one of Angie's roommates

Tom Masters- The priest who marries Scott and Angie

Tomas Rios — only son of Jorge Rios, badly beaten in a bar fight by Tatum

Will Turner — DPS Trooper assigned to Motley County

Zara Rodrigues - One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie only one of the girls to speak English

Zeva (Z'va)Henriques - One of the girls rescued by Scott and Angie, youngest of the girls.

Animals

Dunnie — Scott's favorite horse a line back dun stud

Pete — one of a matched pair of mules used for packing and working around the ranch

Red — a sorrel gelding at the ranch

Repete — Pete's half brother and the other half of the matched set of mules

Spot — a paint mare at the ranch

Stretch — a bay gelding at the ranch

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