Zander Manning

Zander Jared Manning is the illigetimate son of Jared O'Brien and Taylor Manning. After Jared and Taylor met for the first time in seven years, they talked and "Hooked up", resulting in her pregnancy. Taylor never told her son who his father was, and he was oblivious of Jared until reading an old journal of hers. After his birth, he is first seen while his wife, Ashley, was pregnant with their children.

He is described as pale and toned, like his father, with light brown hair and brown eyes, like his mother.

Biography
Zander, as a child, was fine with not knowing his father, but, in 2037, when looking at a baby book for his unborn children, his began to feel a longing to know who his father was. Taylor, still hurt from Jared's leaving, refused to tell him. Frustration soon grew into resentment, and when Zander found Taylor's diary, telling him that his father was Jared, he severed all ties with his mother and her family. In 2042, frustrated with not being able to track down his father, he hired a private dectective, Cordelia Sleet, to find Jared, so he could confront the father he never knew.

Being told that Jared was dining at The Red Lilac with Miranda MacEwan, he raced across the MacGuffin Bridge, just as it collapsed.

He was killed instantly, and upon hearing the news of the son he never knew from Cordelia, Jared came to deliver the news to his daughter-in-law and five-year-old grandchildren.