The book deals extensively with issues of religious choice, stereotype, and the myriad ways individuals express their free will in order to experience spiritual truth. How have your own experiences inspired these themes?

My experience has taught me that intolerance for differences in religion, race, creed, and ethnicity has probably caused more grief in this world than anything else. One religion’s spiritual truth can be another’s ultimate falsehood. With Boca Knights, I was trying to explore the inconsistencies in and difference between all religions, and found the only path to peace in tolerance.