21.   But he was a man harboring dark secrets from the distant past, and they have finally caught up with him.

22.   But his wife, Sara, reveals his dark secret.

23.   But Hugh harbors a dark secret.

24.   But if he does cut rates aggressively, rumors fly about the dark secrets that prompted his action.

25.   But he is rejected by her aristocratic relatives, the Bellegardes, and late in the novel learns their dark family secret.

26.   But the pictures belie a dark secret, the police say.

27.   But under the facade of normalcy, Chris had a dark secret that he kept even from his closest friends.

28.   Dove has a dark secret that haunts him, a mysterious past he feels compelled to atone for by continually risking his life.

29.   Enter Monsignor Raffaello Maraviglia, an urbane oenophile with movie-star looks and a dark secret.

30.   Each of the five principal characters has individual pain with which to deal, dark secrets that are hardly appropriate for exposure to holiday light.