When Linda boarded the train that would take her to London and freedom, she was penniless and alone. A polite offer of help from the stranger in the seat opposite was the last thing she expected. Life with Rowley Frobisher was everything she had ever dreamed of: fast, sophisticated – and expensive. In a few months the rough country girl had changed beyond recognition. But then Rowley has a fatal heart attack – and once again Linda must take desperate action to survive.

The fantastic story of an estranged family, brought together by the death of the so called, "uncle John" to attend to the reading out of his will. Mocking his family, the dead man left his riches to complete strangers and people he had met once...or twice. But, tantalisingly, he did leave with his family the secret to his wealth; a mythical valley of diamonds deep in the Kalahari. The family, grumpy old Henry and his daughter Patricia, the brothers, Earnest and George, their half brother, Michael and their cousin, Sandy take off on a journey to find it. After being warned of the dangers of the journey, as well as the threat of being jailed for illegal prospecting of diamonds, the family splits into teams and heads of to find their treasure. But add a villain and a beautiful woman into the throng and the story takes a dangerous turn.

Why would a French aristocrat renounce his country and live in exile? The answer lies in the Paris of the 1890s; a world of superficial glamour but, under the surface, deep social and political strife. The army, discredited by the Dreyfus case, was being purged. The young de Richleau, cadet and then instructor at the military academy of St. Cyr, became involved in a conspiracy - to restore the French monarchy - with the Duc de Vendome being secretly coached in his future role of King. What happens if the conspiracy is betrayed? For some: death. For de Richleau, the life of a fugitive who has declared a single-handed vendetta against the government.

'Before there was James Bond, there was Gregory Sallust.' Tina Rosenberg, Salon.com Black August is chronologically the tenth in Dennis Wheatley's bestselling Gregory Sallust series, albeit the first title published in the series, featuring the debonair spy Gregory Sallust, a forerunner to Ian Fleming's James Bond. Black August is set in a terrifying future Europe on the verge of collapse; financial breakdown and revolution, civilian panic, street-fighting and an uncontrolled exodus from the cities to the countryside, where bands of starving people wander, pillaging for food. Out of the terror and the bloodshed steps the former British secret agent Gregory Sallust, to take the leadership of a group of men and women seeking only to survive: to lead them through hardship and hazard to a rural settlement which they fortify against invasion, and which, at first, seems reasonably secure.

A stirring psychological thriller adapted into the movie The Haunted Airman starring Robert Pattinson. Toby Jugg, a fighter pilot shot down in combat, is now confined to his bed with little hope of walking again. He is also the heir to a considerable fortune - a fortune that is being administered by a board of trustees until he comes of age. But night after night, out there in the moonlight, Something was trying to get in at the bedroom window. A huge malevolent Something. Something not of this world. Inside, Toby thought first that he was hallucinating, then that he must be going mad, finally that this evil Something was real and striving to reach him. So begins what is probably Dennis Wheatley's most terrifying story of the supernatural. The struggle which ensues brings Toby unexpected help but also treachery as it moves inexorably towards an appalling confrontation and seemingly inevitable catastrophe.

'Before there was James Bond, there was Gregory Sallust.' Tina Rosenberg, Salon.com Traitors' Gate is the seventh in Dennis Wheatley's bestselling Gregory Sallust series featuring the debonair spy Gregory Sallust, a forerunner to Ian Fleming's James Bond. In the summer of 1942, Hungary was not yet embroiled in the war so when secret agent Gregory Sallust is sent to Budapest on a mission, he is able to live once more in a pre-war atmosphere of love and laughter. But wars of the heart know no rules, so when his mission gets him involved with von Ribbentrop's beautiful Hungarian mistress, the laughter is silenced by fear as he desperately struggles to save them both in this complex and action packed adventure.