Called Through Time: Highlander Brides Books in Order

Called Through Time: Highlander Brides is where Jaid Black folds together two things she clearly enjoys, broken futures and rough-edged Scottish romance. The basic promise is easy to grasp: women from desperate circumstances are pushed or pulled across time into the path of Highland warriors, and survival gets tangled up with love.

The future is usually a bad place to be.

In Remnant, Veronica Banks comes from an apocalyptic America overrun by a zombie virus and uses time-travel technology to run for her life. Residuum follows Dr. Xaris Bennett, who improves that same serum and flees an authoritarian regime into twelfth-century Scotland. Relic widens the scope again with Octavia Benatti, a SEAL commander trying to save humanity after extraterrestrial devastation. Season of the Witch sits a little differently, broadening the historical side of the world with Vikings, a contested stronghold, and Highland warlord Cainnech MacKenzie.

The Scottish setting is not decorative. Castles, clan loyalties, siege warfare, and rough landscapes shape how these books move. Black is not writing tidy drawing-room time travel here. Her Highlanders are fighters first, and the women arriving from the future are not floating in to admire the scenery. They are usually escaping disease, collapse, dictatorship, or extinction. That urgency gives the romances a nice edge. Falling in love is not the only problem on the table.

That mix is the fun of it.

Readers who come here for straight Highland romance will get that flavor, but with a heavier science-fiction engine under the hood than usual. Readers who come for dystopian survival will get ruined futures, desperate choices, and women trying to outsmart systems that are already failing. The books sit right in the middle, and that is what makes the series feel a little different from Black’s alien romances and from more traditional Scottish time-travel books.

There are recurring names and connected ideas, especially around the women who cross time and the Highland men they meet, but each book still has its own central pair and crisis. That means you can sample the premise without committing to a massive saga, though the shared world makes the full run more satisfying.

This page is here to make the path clearer. It shows which heroine belongs to which book, how the historical settings relate to the ruined futures behind them, and why the publication order can look stranger than the internal logic of the world. If you want Jaid Black with swords, ruined timelines, and stubborn Highland men, this is a very good lane to pick.