Rob J. Hayes has been a student, a banker, a marine research assistant, a chef, and a keyboard monkey more times than he cares to count. But eventually his love of fantasy and reading drew him to the life of a writer. He's the author of the Amazon Best Selling The Heresy Within, the piratical swashbuckler Where Loyalties Lie, and the steampunk heist caper It Takes a Thief to Catch a Sunrise.