Na Akua is a modern-day Hawaiian mythological adventure, and the inspiration came from Hawaii itself. My wife, Paula, and I visited Maui earlier this year, and on our second morning there, Paula woke up especially early and couldn’t fall back asleep. She saw the moonlight outside the window and woke me up and told me we should go down to the open-air lobby and look at the moon. It seemed like a terrible idea, because sleep is the best, but I got up, and we went downstairs. We stepped out onto the patio, and the scene was like something from a postcard; the full moon in a dark sky casting a glimmering white trail across the ocean, the island of Lanai rising in the background, palm trees swaying above the pool…I thought, “Someone should write a book about this.” Then I thought, “Hey, maybe I’ll write that book.” That’s actually where the very first scene in the book comes from.