The Legacy of Aidan Mcmanus

It was turn-of-the-century Ireland when Sheila O'Reilly, the fiery red-headed beauty, fell for the handsome Ian McManus. She never imagined that their life together would take them across the ocean to America. As poor Irish immigrants, they settled in the Lower East Side of New York.Sheila found work as the upstairs maid at the stately home of Thomas and Evelyn Burrows. It was a tender twist of fate that wove their lives together through love and tragedy for generations to come. It is at her grandfather Aidan's funeral, that we are introduced to Nora, who takes us back through the years to the inspiring and heartwarming, yet often tragic stories of the McManuses and the legacy they left behind

Judith Sessler’s love of writing began in her early childhood. She wrote poetry on napkins and stories in her school notebooks. Her first published works were personal essays and magazine articles. She took a writing hiatus when her family moved across country. When they moved back East, five years later, she discovered that her husband accidentally discarded the box which contained everything she had ever written. She was so devastated, she was unable to write another thing for twenty-five years. Then the muse was suddenly awoken and the stories began to flow. Judith’s fiction books run the gamut from romance, to slice of life vignettes, to short story collections, to her juvenile Time Travel series for 8-12 year olds.