Two therapists—both accidental killers—must disarm each other’s trauma trigger before disaster strikes again.

Hi! My name’s David. I’m an ex-stress management consultant specialising in problems of the subconscious mind. The Happiness Angel’s backstory is a fictitious but true-to-life fusion of the toughest trauma cases I resolved throughout my career. I’ve actually lived much of this story first-hand and experienced some more through my clients. The framework of the story is loosely based on my pilot stress management consultancy for which I won the 1993 Daily Express Award for Innovation in Franchising and made a million pounds from the licensing of 92 consultancies.

The Happiness Angel is a modern-day, mental health dark comedy that reveals some people can never win at love! A 50,000-volt police taser hit triggers a violent compulsion to throttle her lover mid-act, electrifying The Happiness Angel’s sex life and transforming her personality Jekyll and Hyde-style. Think female-led Jekyll and Hyde in love! Desire and disaster triggered by the rare but real-life taser-related condition, excited delirium.

Celebrity therapist/vlogger Candy, known to her followers as The Happiness Angel—smarting from her mentor’s unrequited love—tells Jason, who is her former therapist and an emotionally unavailable mental health entrepreneur, “I’ll fucking make you love me if it kills me!” Ironic, because when she does eventually win his heart, he takes a bullet intended for her. In the closing moments, a mystery is solved that links an ancient first edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets—featured in every act—to Jason’s first love, who perished under his car.

This takes us full circle because Candy, in Act 1—believing she was rescuing a young woman taken hostage in the Dartmoor National Park—accidentally kills ‘the kidnapper’ with her car. Now, with time running out, Candy must release Jason from his trauma about the death of his first love before he can be free to love again, but first she must regain her sanity or she will fail to win his love in the first place. And when she succeeds in winning his heart, there is a risk she will throttle him to death at the height of ecstasy in excited delirium mode because he has a penchant for being handcuffed to his iron bed during sex.

In the 7-year run-up to completion of my 28th rewrite in March 2025, this script has won more than 60 awards across numerous genres, including Best Drama/Best Comedy/Best Feature/Best Action/Best Psychological Thriller, as well as Best Original Script.