C.S. O'Donnell

The O'Donnell Family Saga: Book Two

Unveiling the Legacy: Jacob and Clara

Jacob O’Donnell has spent his life carrying a name that gives him power, duty, and a wound he cannot escape. After the upheaval surrounding Bernard and Catherine, Jacob is left to find his own place within the O’Donnell family, but the walls of Donegal hold more than loyalty and legacy. They hold resentment, secrets, and choices that cannot be undone. As old tensions deepen and new dangers rise, Jacob struggles between the life expected of him and the truth of what he feels he has lost. Bound by blood, pride, and the weight of his family’s name, he must decide whether he will protect the legacy of Tír Chonaill or let bitterness turn him against the very people he was born to stand beside. Set against the storm-dark beauty of sixteenth-century Donegal, Jacob continues The O’Donnell Saga with a story of brotherhood, inheritance, loyalty, and the quiet cracks that can form inside a powerful family long before anyone sees them break.

The O'Donnell Family Saga: Book Three

The Alliance: Marie and Tomas

Marie O’Donnell has grown up within the protection and pressure of the O’Donnell name, but family loyalty does not shield her from the secrets buried inside Donegal Keep. As the family’s future grows more uncertain, Marie begins to see that silence can be as dangerous as betrayal, especially when the truth has been hidden by those closest to her. Caught between duty, love, and the expectations placed upon her, Marie must decide how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice for the family’s survival. As old wounds surface and dangerous questions take hold, her story reveals another side of the O’Donnell legacy: the cost carried by the women who protect it. Set in sixteenth-century Donegal, Marie continues The O’Donnell Saga with a story of hidden truths, family bonds, loyalty, and the quiet strength needed to face what others would rather leave buried.

The O'Donnell Family Saga: Book Four

Wild Winds and Unbreakable Bonds: Kathleen and Henry

Kathleen O’Donnell has always understood that being part of the O’Donnell family means carrying duty before comfort. But when a devastating accident changes the course of her life, Kathleen is forced to confront fear, weakness, and uncertainty in a way she never expected. As the O’Donnell family faces growing danger from old enemies, hidden motives, and fragile loyalties, Kathleen must find strength in the middle of pain and upheaval. Her story becomes one of resilience, survival, and the courage to keep going when life no longer looks the way it once did. Set in sixteenth-century Donegal, Kathleen continues The O’Donnell Saga with a story of family loyalty, personal hardship, danger, and one woman’s fight to rise after tragedy.

The O'Donnell Family Saga: Book Five

The Honest Path, The Naked Truth: Diane and Conel

Diane O’Donnell has always known she was born outside the lines others try to draw around family, blood, and inheritance. What she does not know is the full truth of where she came from, and the name that has been kept from her. As questions from the past begin to surface, Diane is pulled into a search that threatens everything she thought she understood about herself and the O’Donnell family. The truth she seeks is not simple, and each answer carries the power to wound, divide, or finally set old secrets free. Set in sixteenth-century Donegal, Diane continues The O’Donnell Saga with a story of identity, hidden parentage, family loyalty, and one woman’s fight to uncover the truth that others tried to bury.

The O'Donnell Family Saga: Book Six

A Gamble of Blood, A Legacy of Shadows: Patrick

Patrick O’Donnell has spent his life surrounded by the weight of a family name built on loyalty, sacrifice, and secrets. But as the past begins to press harder against the present, Patrick is drawn into a search for truth that reaches back through bloodlines, old promises, and the buried choices of those who came before him. What he uncovers threatens to change the way he understands his own place in the O’Donnell legacy. Questions of birth, inheritance, loyalty, and unfinished oaths force Patrick to confront not only what was hidden, but why it was hidden for so long. Set in sixteenth-century Donegal, Patrick brings The O’Donnell Saga toward its deepest truths, tying together the family’s long-buried mysteries with a story of identity, legacy, betrayal, and the enduring strength of the O’Donnell name.

The O'Donnell Family Saga

Prequel Bonus

Prequel: The Storm Before Donegal Before Bernard O’Donnell inherits the full weight of his family’s name, before Catherine becomes tied to the fate of Donegal Keep, a storm rises off the Irish coast and changes everything. When wreckage washes toward shore and a wounded stranger is pulled from the sea, the people of Donegal are drawn into a mystery that reaches beyond the violence of the storm. In the dye shed, among indigo-stained hands, old loyalties, quiet fears, and unspoken dangers begin to take shape. Set before the events of Bernard, The Storm Before Donegal opens the door to The O’Donnell Saga with a haunting glimpse of survival, hidden truths, and the first signs of the legacy that will follow the family for generations. Bonus Book This special bonus story is included as part of The O’Donnell Saga collection. It is not a full standalone novel, but a companion piece meant to deepen the reader’s connection to the world of Donegal, the O’Donnell family, and the hidden mysteries carried through the series. With its storm-dark setting, early family tensions, and quiet clues woven into the larger saga, the bonus book gives readers an extra piece of the O’Donnell legacy before the full story unfolds across the main books.

The Rail to the Water

A family-history novel inspired by visits to Tumwater, Washington, the Masonic cemetery, Tumwater Falls, and the places where the Ward family story meets South Puget Sound history. The novel is a result of in-depth research and writings by Bernie O'Donnell, husband to C.S. O'Donnell.