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Before the Veil opened, the falls were already whispering. At Victoria Falls, where luxury eco-resorts glitter beside sacred rainforest and helicopter tours drift above endless rainbow mist, Thryn Mosi guides wealthy travellers through the beauty of Mosi-oa-Tunya - the Smoke That Thunders. To tourists, the falls are breathtaking spectacle. To Thryn, they are alive. The river remembers grief. The mist carries voices. And something ancient beneath Devil's Pool has begun waking beneath the strain of climate collapse and human greed. Meanwhile, elegant investor Selene Vey arrives promising sustainable innovation and a new future for the region. But beneath her polished charm lies a dangerous obsession with the hidden crossings buried under the gorge. As storms transform the falls into walls of silver mist and blood-red rainbows, Thryn and the guardian Sipho race to stop forces already tearing the sacred balance apart. Lush, haunting, and emotionally immersive, Before the Veil Breathed is an eco-fantasy prequel novella filled with ancient magic, climate dread, mythic mystery, and breathtaking danger set five years before the events of Mistbound Hearts, the first novel in the SMOKE THAT THUNDERS series. Because long before the woman destined to change the Veil arrives at the falls, the river has already begun calling her name.

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Violet Williams writes immersive romantasy and mythic eco-fiction exploring the intersection between climate grief, sacred landscapes, emotional transformation, and ancient mythologies woven through the living natural world. Inspired by the breathtaking majesty of Victoria Falls, African oral storytelling traditions, ecological realities facing vulnerable ecosystems, and the emotional power of atmospheric fantasy romance, in the SMOKE THAT THUNDERS series Violet blends lush cinematic prose with spiritual mystery and environmental themes. Through emotionally charged storytelling, layered mythology, and intimate character-driven narratives, the series explores what it means to reconnect with wonder in an age increasingly defined by ecological fracture. When not writing emotionally immersive fantasy worlds filled with mist, rain, and dangerous soul-bonds, Violet researches climate storytelling, mythic symbolism, eco-tourism cultures, and sacred water systems across global traditions. This novella serves as the atmospheric gateway into the ten-book SMOKE THAT THUNDERS saga. The falls are only beginning to awaken.

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