Then her life is interrupted by a surprise visitor - a long-lost son, fully loaded with prophetic gifts and tragic secrets.

The brooding hero with wealth and position, and a tragic secret.

Blood tests confirmed he had the disease in December 1987 but he kept the tragic secret from his family for more than three years.

Instead, she directed readers to his "wonderful observation of character, and his strange insight into the tragic secrets of the human heart".

It was a gate shut for long centuries, forbidden even to those who came after the Messulethe and had learned their dark and tragic secrets.

The movie doesn't spill the characters' tragic secrets until the very end.

Jonathan is the primary character in this novel, as he seeks out the mother he believed long dead and learns the tragic secrets of his family history.

The locals are reluctant to talk about Mrs Drablow or the mysterious woman, but working alone in the old mansion, Kipps slowly begin to uncover the town's tragic secrets.

A motherless waif whose life has been shaped by road trips with her father joins a circle of students around a charismatic teacher with a tragic secret.

However, Selena hid a very tragic secret.