Samantha Hayes writing career began when she won a short story competition in 2003. Her novels are family-based psychological thrillers. Sam focuses on current issues and she sets out to make her reader ask, 'What if this happened to me or my family?' Samantha's titles include Blood Ties, Unspoken, Tell Tale and Someone Else's Son, written as Sam Hayes and her detective novels, written as Samantha Hayes, Until You're Mine, Before You Die, You Belong to Me, No Way Out, and What You Left Behind.