Choctaw Falls introduces you to the American Indian ancestry of Marlena McBride, the misplaced and well-remembered character in our previous writing, A Garden Enclosed. Her birth and spiritual journey-told through an episodic return to the earth mounds of her first emergence-serves as background to the essence of this novel, Choctaw Falls. The lives affected by Marlena McBride-our principal characters-provide the bonds that hold these haunting words together. The novel's historical expedition offers a unique perspective on how all of our lives become spiritually interwoven with common threads, the dark ones as well as those made of silver and gold. Most important, within these pages the author discloses his answer to the unending question asked in A Garden Enclosed: Who is and where is Marlena McBride?