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The latest gripping instalment of the 'SECRETS' series is here!

Celia Browning, the former head of the Secret Service, is living at Shady Fields, a care home for retired secret agents who are now struggling with memory problems. 

She is suddenly thrust into a life-threatening situation, when Vector 10, an illusive hacker, discovers incriminating documents relating to the murder of a government inspector.

 

Daniel Grant and his team are determined to uncover the truth behind Vector 10 and investigate a sinister plot involving the control of global energy markets.

 

As the investigation deepens, Daniel and the other residents are forced to confront the dark secrets of their pasts and the lengths they went to, to protect their country. 

With his life, and the lives of the other residents on the line, Daniel, and his team embark on a thrilling and suspenseful mission to discover the truth and protect STATE SECRETS.

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Due 1st Quarter 2025

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The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China at midnight on 1st July 1997, ended 156 years of British rule in the former colony, which began in 1841. It also marked the end of British colonial prestige in the Asia-Pacific region which never recovered after the Second World War. 

The transfer, marked by a handover ceremony attended by Charles, Prince of Wales (now King Charles III) and broadcast around the world, is often considered as marking the definitive end of the British Empire.

This novel takes you behind the official facade to reveal the clandestine activities of the Secret Services, as many of the popular Shady Fields Characters, and some new ones ply their trade craft, and it delivers espionage thrills and spills by the bucket load.

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The 3rd instalment in the Secrets Series

The 3rd instalment in the Secrets Series

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KEEPING SECRETS and HIDDEN SECRETS

Shady Fields is a retirement home for ex Secret Agents, but don't let that fool you. They can still call on their expertise when the safety of their home is threatened.

Cold War battles, Secret Memoirs, lost love and revenge. Keeping Secrets is the first thrilling book in the 'Secrets' Series. 

 

When the Good Friday Agreement was drawn up in 1998 nearly 100 terrorists had their past 'cleansed', but not everyone received a 'comfort letter'. Some former IRA members had been hung out to dry, and they had to resort to a life of crime to make ends meet.

But the past has a habit of catching up with people, and when an IRA fugitive decides to become an MI5 Supergrass, shockwaves reverberate throughout the underworld he is a part of. Ghosts from his past come back to haunt him, and many people now want him dead. So, Daniel Grant, the newly appointed Director General of the British Secret Service, puts him in a safe house with a difference.

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Ali Bagley, Award Winning author and writing coach

 

In my role as radio show host on ‘Write Up Your Ali’ I am privileged to be sent, and so to read, some incredible books. I then review them on my show and interview the authors.

Well this one is an absolute corker of a read. I started reading, ‘Keeping Secrets’ this morning and have just read it cover to cover, I could not put it down. Wendy Charlton is an incredible storyteller, and I am now changing my plans to read the follow-up book tomorrow.

I interviewed Wendy for my show, (listen here) and sincerely hope that book four is on the way. Ali.

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Collectors Edition
Box Sets Now Available  

Limited copies produced and available exclusively from my online Shop

Collectors Editions contain:

1: Signed and dedicated copy of the book(s)

2: Certificate of Authentication 

3: Metal Executive Pen

4: Leather Coaster

5: Magnetic Bookmark

6: Secrets Dossier - containing

       Character profiles

       Background articles

       Top Secret reports and correspondence

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Single and Double Pack versions available from the on;line shop 

Two great new Collectors Edition Box Sets only available in my online Shop 

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Hidden Secrets, the second in the Daniel Grant series is now available as a limited edition Collector's Box Set, with many extras, including an in-depth dossier of the characters, the history, and the politics of the day 
Both 'Secrets' Novels, plus a metal Pen, a magnetic Bookmark and an exclusive 'Secrets' dossier full of extras and insights into the characters, the history, and the politics of the day - Limited to 50 copies.

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About Wendy

Wendy Charlton was born in Walsall in the West Midlands at the start of the “Swingin’ Sixties”.  She describes her childhood as "happy and carefree" and spent most of it exploring books, spending hours in the local library.

 Wendy has enjoyed a broad and varied career in the public and private sectors coaching leaders to develop their teams and their businesses.  The Personality Profiling aspect of her work has given her unique insights into what motivates and drives people to behave as they do.  Now, Wendy has swapped her "proper" job for one of author and novelist.  Working from her home in a beautiful part of rural Staffordshire, finally, she is able to pursue her passion for writing. Hidden Secrets is her secon gripping novel featuring the unlikely duo of ex-Secret Agent Daniel Grant and civil servant Hilary Geddes

The Second book in the 'SECRETS' series is still available

HIDDEN SECRETS

The Good Friday Agreement was drawn up in 1998 and nearly 100 terrorists had their past 'cleansed', but not everyone received a 'comfort letter'. Some former IRA members had been hung out to dry, and they had to resort to a life of crime to make ends meet.

The past has a habit of catching up with people, and when an IRA fugitive decides to become an MI5 Supergrass, shockwaves reverberate throughout the underworld he is a part of.

Ghosts from his past come back to haunt him, and many people now want him dead. So, Daniel Grant, the newly appointed Director General of the British Secret Service, hides him in a safe house with a difference.

Shady Fields is a retirement home for ex Secret Agents, but don't let that fool you. They can still call on their expertise when the safety of their home is threatened.

Now Available to buy from Amazon.co.uk

Paperback £9.99 - Kindle edition £2.99

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“My God, Sinead, what have you done?”

In the beam of moonlight that shone through the opening, he saw a single white feather float silently to the floor.

'Colm Devey  - Hidden Secrets

The First book in the 'SECRETS' series is also available

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KEEPING SECRETS

Set in a residential home with a difference, the residents are former secret agents who worked for the security services throughout the sixties, seventies and eighties. They have grown old, some of them have developed dementia and one or two of them are starting to talk. 

 
Daniel Grant was a Secret Agent who retired from active service after he was shot. Hilary Geddes is a career civil servant who dislikes how society writes-off the elderly. Together they run Shady Fields.


Senior Security Service officer, Bernard Cummings is being lined up for a top job but has secrets of his own that he would rather stayed buried.  When one of the residents threatens a tell-all memoir that could potentially implicate him, Cummings decides to take action.

  
An electronics boffin, a femme fetale and an aristocrat (who periodically thinks he is Lord Lucan) find themselves at the heart of an intrigue which begins with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Staff and residents have to work together to protect their own and see justice done, but that won’t be easy.

Now available to buy from Amazon.co.uk 

Paperback £8.99 - Kindle edition £0.00

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ROUGH JUSTICE

For those keen to read my novels, KEEPING SECRETS and HIDDEN SECRETS, I would like to give you a completely free copy of ROUGH JUSTICEa short story that explains what Daniel Grant did before he became the Director of Shady Fields.

 

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