Jaid Black Books in Order
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Publication Order
54 books
God of Fire
by Jaid Black
2000
A dream promises one woman a Viking husband waiting more than a thousand years in the past. The book leans into prophecy, time travel, and a fierce warrior hero who plans to keep what he claims.
The Empress' New Clothes
by Jaid Black
2000
Kyra Summers is kidnapped from Earth and married to a towering alien king who insists she is his Sacred Mate. It is the book that defines Trek Mi Q'an, bold sci-fi romance, culture shock, and a world with very few inhibitions.
After The Storm
by Jaid Black
2001
Anthropologist Maya Jones joins a dig at the ruins of Castle MacGregor and finds herself pulled toward the clan’s violent past. The story blends excavation, old secrets, and Scottish time-slip romance.
No Escape
by Jaid Black
2001
Promised in marriage since infancy, Kara Q’ana Tal runs rather than surrender her freedom. Cam K’al Ra follows her to the matriarchal world of Galis, turning the chase into a romance built on pursuit, pride, and clashing expectations.
No Mercy
by Jaid Black
2001
Giselle McKenzie’s ordinary evening turns strange fast when King Rem Q’an Tal enters her life. This second Trek Mi Q'an novel keeps the alien-mate premise running hot while widening the royal family saga.
The Obsession
by Jaid Black
2001
Proper Edinburgh lecturer Neil Macalister thinks he likes his life orderly until Valentina Jason-Elliot wrecks that illusion. Desire hits him like a fixation, and the story follows what happens when repression finally gives way.
Things That Go Bump in the Night
by Jaid Black
2001
This paranormal anthology includes Jaid Black’s Trek Mi Q'an-linked Naughty Nancy story alongside tales by Marilyn Lee and Treva Harte. It is more sampler than series novel, but it opens a memorable side door into Black’s alien world.
Tremors
by Jaid Black
2001
Marie Robb goes to Europe hoping to reset her life and instead breaks down near a village full of warnings. The mysterious man who rescues her may be exactly who the locals say she should fear.
Warlord
by Jaid Black
2001
Euan Donald plans to steal the bride he was denied, and modern-day Janet Duval steps into the mess when time and place turn slippery. It is a Highland capture romance with an old-school setup and a lot of momentum.
Seized
by Jaid Black
2002
Kyra’s best friend Geris Jackson refuses to accept that no one believes the abduction story. Her search for Kyra pulls her straight into the Trek Mi Q'an world and gives the series another outsider fighting to catch up.
Sins of the Father
by Jaid Black
2002
Candy Morgan knows JD Mahoney has every reason to hate her family, and she fears what will happen when he takes power at Morgan Chemicals. It is a revenge-tinged contemporary romance with business warfare and old wounds underneath the heat.
The Hunted
by Jaid Black
2002
This shared volume pairs Jaid Black’s *Besieged* with J.W. McKenna’s *Trackers*. On Black’s side, it throws Peggy Brannigan into the Arctic and straight at a hidden Viking predator determined to claim her.
Conquest
by Jaid Black
2003
This Trek Mi Q'an collection pairs *No Escape* and *No Fear*, two stories about women pulled into alien societies where marriage, pursuit, and power carry real consequences. It works well if you want a larger bite of the series in one volume.
Enchained
by Joey W Hill
2003
A shared anthology of erotic romance novellas. Joey W. Hill's contribution, Choice of Masters, brings Arthurian magic, captivity, and a desperate Rite of Awakening into a dark fantasy love story.
The Avenger
by Jaid Black
2003
The final main Death Row installment raises the danger around Kerick, Nellie, and the fight against the Hierarchy. By this point the series is running on escape, retaliation, and whether love can survive a collapsing world.
The Fugitive
by Jaid Black
2003
Scientist Nellie Kan is close to a medical breakthrough when escaped prisoner Kerick Riley kidnaps her in a brutal twenty-third-century future. The first Death Row installment sets up a grim world of disease, scarcity, and rebellion.
The Hunter
by Jaid Black
2003
Kerick and Nellie’s story continues as alliances shift and the larger plot against the ruling order starts to sharpen. This middle installment reads like pure serial suspense, fast, tense, and designed to push straight into book three.
The Possession
by Jaid Black
2003
Professor Kris Torrence signs up for five days at an exclusive resort where wealthy men seek willing submissives, never expecting her longtime rival Jack McKenna to appear. The setup is bold, erotic, and very much about fantasy colliding with real feelings.
Breeding Ground
by Jaid Black
2004
Commander Alexandria Frazier returns from deep space to find Earth ruined and history bent out of shape. The story turns into a survival-heavy science fiction romance with matriarchal tribes, hostile mutants, and a heroine far from home.
Devilish Dot
by Jaid Black
2004
Dot Araiza makes sex toys for a living but has no love life to speak of, until a storm changes everything. The result is a funny, fast Trek Mi Q'an detour with a lonely heroine suddenly dropped into chaos.
One Dark Night
by Jaid Black
2004
Dr. Nikki Adenike thinks an online relationship may finally unlock her secret fantasies, just as a serial killer case closes in around her. Romantic suspense, dangerous internet intimacy, and a gruff detective drive the book.
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
by Jaid Black
2005
An anthology of romantic suspense and heat, including a Kenyon story, where danger, desire, and power dynamics collide, and the characters have to decide who really holds the rope.
Deep, Dark & Dangerous
by Jaid Black
2006
Actress Madalyn Simon hides out in an Alaskan cabin to escape Hollywood, then loses control of the story when a hidden Viking world finds her first. Snow, isolation, and a dangerous stranger do most of the work here.
Notorious
by Jaid Black
2006
Devlin and Chantel stand at the center of a fantasy romance where Shadow Warriors, mystical sisters, and growing darkness all collide. It feels bigger and more mythic than many of Black’s contemporary stories.
Playing Easy to Get
by Jaid Black
2006
A shared-world romance collection set in the Viking Underground universe, where modern Vikings and secrets collide. Kenyon’s contribution delivers action, heat, and a standalone story that fits the larger world.
The Hunger
by Jaid Black
2006
Count Dario Giovanni will do anything to save his sister from the countess who enslaved her. The book mixes vampire-dark atmosphere, ancient evil, and a dream woman who may be his only path back to hope.
Lost in Trek
by Jaid Black
2007
This is a companion guide to the Trek Mi Q'an universe rather than a new full romance. It gathers background on the world, characters, and earlier stories, which makes it handy once the series starts to feel gloriously complicated.
Never A Slave
by Jaid Black
2007
Julian Jameson expects a weekend of masculine escape and ends up chained on Galis, where women rule. That reversal gives this Trek Mi Q'an entry a sharp hook before the power struggle turns personal.
Adam & Evil
by Jaid Black
2009
Julia Cameron wants a gentle, emotionally open man, not her father’s cold and dominant protégé. A plane crash strands them together, and the story turns that mismatch into an enemies-to-lovers pressure cooker.
Before The Fire
by Jaid Black
2009
In the twenty-fifth century, scientist Kane Edmonds needs a long-extinct plant to stop a deadly brain virus. Her search sends her into Earth’s past and into a Scottish story where survival and desire get tangled fast.
Besieged
by Jaid Black
2009
Anthropology student Peggy Brannigan is studying in Alaska when she is hunted across the Arctic by a hidden Nordic warrior. The setup is pure Jaid Black, icy wilderness, secret Viking culture, and a heroine in way over her head.
Bossy & Clyde
by Jaid Black
2009
Damon Clyde can handle an overbearing client, but not the way Kandrea gets under his skin. Their romance mixes banter, attraction, and a light paranormal thread as Kandrea tries to make sense of what the spirit world wants.
Enslaved
by Jaid Black
2009
Marty is pulled from Earth into a brutal alien world and lands in the orbit of King Kil Q’an Tal. Their story mixes captivity, culture clash, and a surprisingly character-driven thread inside the Trek Mi Q'an universe.
No Fear
by Jaid Black
2009
Quiet librarian Brynda Mitchell is overdue for something wilder than her normal life. Her Trek Mi Q'an adventure pairs her with Jek Q’an Ri and throws her into abduction, alien customs, and reluctant desire.
Stalked
by Jaid Black
2009
Pop sensation Regina Rose has lived inside fame’s bubble, not real danger, until an obsessed fan gets his hands on her. This dark short novel leans hard on captivity, fear, and unwanted obsession.
Vanished
by Jaid Black
2009
Lynne Temple is driving toward a fresh start after divorce when a highway detour strands her in a remote mountain community. The farther in she goes, the less likely it feels that she will simply drive back out.
Subjugated
by Jaid Black
2010
Shannon Smith thinks her marriage to Hani bin Nasser is nothing more than convenience. Hani has a very different plan, and the story turns that mismatch into a tense battle over trust, desire, and control.
Dominated
by Jaid Black
2013
An erotic romance built around control, surrender, and the trouble that starts when desire refuses to stay theoretical. This is Jaid Black in concentrated form, blunt chemistry, power games, and emotional friction.
Sporked in Time
by Jaid Black
2014
West Hollywood private eyes Busty Russell and Tope McWhite are wildly unqualified for most cases, let alone time travel. Their hunt for the origin of the spork drops them into 1391 Scotland and a lot of comic disaster.
Season of the Witch
by Jaid Black
2015
When Vikings seize Eilean Donnán, Highland warlord Cainnech MacKenzie is sent to take it back. Siege warfare, clashing loyalties, and fierce attraction drive this rough-edged Highland romance.
Fatman & Robyn
by Jaid Black
2016
Football star Jake Chamberlin has a weakness he keeps very private, and Robyn DiMarco ends up right in its path. It is a quick contemporary romance with body-image themes, instant chemistry, and a hero who has to stop hiding what he wants.
No Way Out
by Jaid Black
2016
Princess Dari Q'ana Tal and High Lord Gio Z’an Tar take center stage in a Trek Mi Q'an installment built on old questions and hard choices. It pushes the larger family saga forward and pays off long-running tension.
Seeds of Yesterday
by Jaid Black
2016
Trina Pittman never forgot how the Hunter family looked down on her, especially Daniel. Years after Amy Hunter’s death brings them back together, old hurt and buried attraction finally have to be faced.
The Addiction
by Jaid Black
2016
Wealthy, controlled John Calder has never lacked attention, only real connection. Shelli Rodgers, a klutzy Ph.D. student, upends his carefully managed world and forces him to feel more than he planned.
The Beckoned
by Jaid Black
2016
Wai Ashley has dreamed of Jack Elliot since childhood and assumes he is imaginary, until a storm strands her in the wrong motel. Then the past reaches for her in earnest.
$old
by Jaid Black
2017
CIA translator Dr. Viviana Lincoln heads to a safe house in northern Kabul expecting routine work, then everything turns violent. The result is a dark romantic suspense story about captivity, war, and survival under pressure.
Abducted
by Jaid Black
2017
After terrorists overrun a CIA bunker in Jalalabad, Agent Marisol Kennedy is taken alive by enemy forces. Her only real plan is escape, which gives this sequel a stripped-down, high-stakes survival drive.
It's Bigly
by Jaid Black
2017
In 2073, a swaggering patriot from Trumpgolia gets pulled into a culture-war nightmare on the far side of the wall. The book plays its dystopia as broad political satire with romance, propaganda, and chaos all tangled together.
It's Fully Loaded
by Jaid Black
2018
A successful New York artist from the so-called Normal States thinks her life is nearly perfect until a man from the other side of Jina’s wall shatters it. This companion novel flips the satire and romance from the opposite point of view.
Amnesia
by Jaid Black
2020
Gaia Evans wakes from a coma with five missing years and a husband she cannot quite trust. The hook is simple and sharp, memory loss, a broken life, and the fear that the closest man to her may be the most dangerous.
Claimed
by Jaid Black
2020
Kari Gy’at Li has spent nine years running from Isar “Death” K’al Draji and wants no part of being claimed by any warrior. He has very different plans, and the chase reignites old danger and unfinished desire.
Relic
by Jaid Black
2020
In a future ravaged by extraterrestrials, SEAL commander Octavia Benatti travels to 1301 Scotland searching for a future for humanity. Angus Karrik is one more complication she did not plan for.
Remnant
by Jaid Black
2023
Veronica Banks flees a zombie-ravaged America with stolen time-travel tech and lands in 1155 Scotland. Survival comes first, but Highland laird Lachlan Gunn is impossible to ignore.
Residuum
by Jaid Black
2023
Xaris Bennett improves the time-travel serum, then uses it to escape an authoritarian regime. Her flight lands her in 1157 and in the path of Sir Finn Gunn, who changes the risk completely.
Where should I start?
If you want her signature alien romance: The Empress' New Clothes → No Mercy → Enslaved
If you want contemporary erotic romance: The Possession → The Addiction → Sins of the Father
If you prefer dark romantic suspense: One Dark Night → Amnesia
If you want Highland time travel: Season of the Witch → Relic → Remnant → Residuum
If you want satire and comedy: Sporked in Time → It's Bigly → It's Fully Loaded
Author bio
Jaid Black is the pen name Tina Marie Engler uses for the fiction that made her name with readers who like their romance hot, strange, and a little unruly. She was born in Salem, Ohio, on January 22, 1972. After her parents separated, she grew up first in Cuyahoga Falls, then Akron, and later Tampa, Florida.
Those moves matter when you look at her career. Black did not come up through the usual New York publishing path. She was writing the kind of stories she wanted to read, explicit, female-centered romance with strong fantasy and science fiction hooks, at a time when many publishers did not think there was much of a market for them.
So she found another way in.
After rejections from traditional publishers, Engler began selling her work directly in digital form, first by email and CD-ROM. In 2000 she started Ellora's Cave as a way to publish that work herself, and the company helped push erotic romance and the early ebook business into wider view. She later received Romantic Times' first Trail Blazer Award for that role, which tells you a lot about how early she was to the space.
As Jaid Black, she built a bibliography that mixes erotic romance with science fiction, time travel, suspense, and big fantasy premises. The Empress' New Clothes, the opening book in her Trek Mi Q'an universe, is still one of the clearest examples of what she likes to do, throw an ordinary woman into a very unordinary world and let desire, danger, and culture shock collide.
That same taste shows up in other books too. No Mercy and Enslaved keep expanding the wild alien politics of Trek Mi Q'an. One Dark Night leans into romantic suspense, with an online relationship that turns dangerous. The Possession and The Addiction bring the heat closer to home, pairing blunt sexual tension with power dynamics and emotionally messy attraction.
She likes big setups.
A lot of Black's stories ask what happens when a woman lands in a world with different rules, whether that world is a hidden Viking society, a medieval Highland past, a dystopian future, or a more contemporary setting full of control games and secrets. Readers tend to come to her for high-concept premises, alpha heroes, lots of momentum, and a willingness to mix sci-fi and fantasy ideas into romance without apology.
Her catalog also shows a playful side. Books like Sporked in Time and The Face Palm Chronicles lean harder into comedy and satire, while series such as Called Through Time: Highlander Brides and The MacGregors show how often she returns to time travel, Scotland, and the fun of putting modern characters in older, rougher worlds.
Off the page, Engler has been public about the business side of writing, and she has also spoken openly at times about anxiety and panic disorder. She is a member of SFWA and the Authors Guild. Her official bio says she lives and writes in northeast Ohio, enjoys painting, travel, and food, and is the mother of two adult daughters.
That mix feels very on-brand. Jaid Black's books are adventurous, sometimes chaotic, often provocative, and rarely interested in staying inside one neat box. If you are browsing her work for the first time, the quickest way to understand the appeal is simple: start with the aliens, the Highlanders, or the suspense, and see which door you want to open next.
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