Joseph Starling

I was born July 4, 1971 in my parents bed on the Starling Ranch in southern New Mexico. I was an only child. The ranch is over a million acres and covers desert and mountains. We have a large orchard and until the seventies its how my family made a living.  I spent my entire life on the ranch, except for a few years where I worked in the oil fields in the permian basin to pay off the loans my father took out.  I took over the ranch from my father when I was twenty five. My mother passed away suddenly, and he took up drinking and passed away two years later. I married my first sweetheart Mary, in 1991 and we had two beautiful girls, Annika and Astrid. We raised fruit in our orchard and leased out the north range for cattle. A few years after my father passed, I put oil wells on the land that sat in the basin, and never had to worry about money again.  Mary passed away from cancer the winter of  2015, and this is where my story begins.  

Bodaway Rose

I was born June 1, 1968 on my grandmothers floor in Montana.  My father was the nightmare my mother and I lived in. After surviving  a horrible crime when I was 12, I moved in with my Grandmother, and learned how not to be my father. She praised me, and raised me to be a proud Native American. She made me believe I could rise above my circumstance, and I became an award winning Chef, traveling the world learning my craft.  I was blessed with my mothers beauty, and I never had to try with a women. They found me charming and exotic, so I enjoyed it into my forties. I met and married my wife Tadi when she was twenty, and we have three beautiful girls, Kele, Aponi and Chenoa. I own a country club, a pizzeria known as the Brick, and a cafe where I ran into Dani, thirty years later. This is where my story begins.