In a long series, it is utmost important that the translator is familiar with all the characters’ stories and traits in order to avoid omitting essential details due to lack of context.

When it comes to the main plot in Mariah’s series, it’d be brave Highland warriors (both female and male) fighting alongside Robert the Bruce for Scottish Independence while falling in love with heroes and heroines out of their time. (Or the other way around: modern women and men falling through time and falling in love with brave Highlanders.) This plot is present and developing in each book to different extents. So much so that as the books go on in the series, the years pass, and we see Robert the Bruce fighting minor battles in the first books (with important victories) until he fights the historical Battle of Bannockburn in book 10, alongside all the brave warriors readers fell in love with during the series.

The first example of character consistency in Mariah’s series that comes to mind (though there are too many) is in book 4, Highlander’s Love (El amor del highlander). The author cleverly introduces readers to characters that will become highly important in later books, namely brothers Angus and Ragnall Mackenzie (books 5 and 7, El deseo del highlander and La novia del highlander, respectively). These completely different brothers are first introduced in a rather short chapter full of information, so their descriptions must be accurate and reflect their personalities (which are very different from one another, as one is an outcast whereas the other one would make the perfect laird), their brotherly support for each other, their family drama and conflicted past. As they’ll become the main characters of their own stories, readers won’t be at all satisfied if their first impressions of these heroes clash with their later representations.