THE SECRET OF VICTORIA WINTERS When actress Alexandra Moltke Isles was pregnant and left the television show Dark Shadows, her character, Collinwood's governess Victoria Winters , was whisked back into the past with lover Peter Bradford , never to return. The Secret of Victoria Winters was an outline that W. E. D. "Marilyn" Ross proposed to write, intending to explain the disappearance of Victoria Winters from the book series. The four-chapter novella can be read on Craig Hamrick's web site. THE SECRET OF VICTORIA WINTERS 'By Craig Hamrick • 'Story by Dan "Marilyn" Ross