1. Philippine fiction (English) 2. Blessing and Cursing – Fiction When a vain prince of Voile lands his family into trouble with the deities, it is up to his sensible eldest daughter Nada to soften the blow of the curse for her younger sisters. Nada doesn’t mind too much—until it turns out that the curse ensures that whoever marries her expires shortly after the wedding. With a growing trail of dead husbands behind her, she accepts the chance to break the curse from a deity who probably shouldn’t be trusted and finds herself sent to faraway land to marry its wicked Emperor. Nada has every intention of breaking the curse once and for all, but thanks to some ill-timed magic, and the Emperor’s own irritating attitude, she may have just secured him as her eighth dead husband...