"Not directly. But when I checked Winters' biography, I discovered several references to a 'dark beauty' in his company. That would have been sometime after the mid-1990s, and in Los Angeles. But not long after Winters was staked--'by a vampire with a soul', no less--she turns up in the records again, this time in Greenwich Village in New York."

"Andrew, I strongly suspect this is the vampire they encountered. And if it is, she possesses not only the powers of the undead, but of a witch as well. Which may account for her ability to resist staking. Perhaps she relies on a spell of some kind."