About the book: 2008 / Marina’s marriage was doomed from the very beginning - she and Pavel Epifanov broke up immediately after the wedding, then got back together, then the child died... And this turned out to be only a small fraction of the misfortunes that befell the Epifanov family clan one after another. As the years passed, the family's affairs became more and more deplorable. Pavel began to quietly become an alcoholic, and a passionate romance broke out between Marina and his younger brother Alexei. When her husband died tragically, she married Alexei, but he also briefly outlived his brother. It was then that I remembered the words about some kind of curse imposed on the family almost eighty years ago. Marina decided to find the roots of this story and lift the curse from the family.