When therapist and vlogger, The Happiness Angel, rescues a hostage, 50,000-volt police taser damage fires her with real-life Excited Delirium. A compulsion to throttle her lovers develops. She struggles to win the heart of her mentor.

Candy, THE HAPPINESS ANGEL—smarting from her mentor’s unrequited love—is presented with the LCI Practitioner of the Year 2025 winner’s trophy at a prestigious awards ceremony in London by none other than HIM! (Jason Wood). “I’ll fucking make him love me if it kills me,” Candy vlogs amid the tranquillity of Dartmoor National Park. In the end, she succeeds, but that hard-won love kills him, not her! Whilst vlogging, she sees a young woman dragged backwards by her curly red hair and flung—pleading to be set free—into a car. Without thought for her own safety, she rushes to her rescue. Car Chase. Confrontation! Abductor accidentally killed. Police arrive. Scarlett—‘the hostage’—screams, “She murdered my husband!” Candy is tasered. The taser hit triggers a violent compulsion to throttle her lover mid- act, electrifying her sex life and transforming her personality, Jekyll and Hyde-style!

From her cell, Candy appeals to Jason for help. He’s in the middle of a 3-in-a-bed orgy. Jason sends his high-powered lawyer to Plymouth. Scarlett drops her murder allegation. She falls in love with Candy and seduces her. At the height of ecstasy, Candy throttles Scarlett. “Maybe that taser shot fucked with your brain,” Scarlett croaks. Scarlett blackmails Candy into attending her late husband’s funeral and dancing on his grave with her. Scarlett tries again to seduce her but Candy freaks out. A priest appears and breaks up the near-death throttling of Scarlett. She utters—in a hoarse voice—“See you in court, bitch!” Candy’s High Court trial proceeds interspersed with traumatic backstory. Jason gives compelling testimony for her defence. Candy makes a powerful enemy of taser industry mogul, Zalika. Scarlett allies with Zalika against Candy.

Jason’s extravagant Fitzrovia penthouse is where Candy finally achieves the love from Jason that we know she craves. It is also where both internal and physical conflicts explode, with a climactic ending in the pivotal moment of Candy winning over her lethal compulsion. Scarlett calls the police while pretending to be Jason’s sister. The police surround the residence and try to crash in. Scarlett dies a violent—albeit comedic—death while spying on Candy and Jason’s consummation of their love. The session is fused with psychodynamic healing in harmony with the reverberations of Ravel’s masterpiece *BOLERO* to help exorcize the throttling compulsion. *(OUT OF COPYRIGHT—NO FEES TO PAY.) Right on the cusp of success—disaster! Their concentration is interrupted by a whirring sound. A Metropolitan Police helicopter hovers off the balcony. Blinded by a ray of sunlight, Candy abruptly raises her hand. Sharpshooter aboard the helicopter prepares to fire. Jason screams, “Duck, Candy, duck!” She does, and the bullet strikes him. Police dynamite the fortressed penthouse door, and in the closing moments, a mystery is solved that reveals why the sharpshooter’s bullet is linked to misshapen pulp that was once an ancient (1609) first edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets—featured in every act—connected to Jason’s first love, who perished under his car.

BIO—I am a former stress management consultant specializing in problems of the subconscious mind. I am also an author and self-made millionaire from the licensing of 92 consultancies based on my award-winning pilot practice. I won the Daily Express Award for Innovation in Franchising in 1993. The protagonist’s backstory is a fictitious but true-to-life fusion of the toughest trauma cases I ever worked out. The exhaustion from which possibly brought on the two major strokes I suffered in 1995. My first health book, AFTER STROKE, published in February 2000 by Thorsons (HarperCollins)—and still in print today—featured in an episode of BBC TV’s Cornish Chronicles, on ITV’s famous *This Morning* show with host Richard Madeley, and on Channel 5 TV News. *(Watch the video recording on my website).

OVERVIEW: This is a female-led, darkly comedic psycho thriller with echoes of A BEAUTIFUL MIND, JEKYLL AND HYDE, and KILLING EVE. The inner workings of the human psyche spring to life in this high-concept, modern-day, *multi- award-winner. *See the website for details of my 69 OUTRIGHT AWARD WINS prior to final script completion in 2025.

Right now, in the West, mental health is going downhill fast! Can THE HAPPINESS ANGEL’s determination to win the heart of her beloved Jason and reclaim her sanity in the wake of outrageous misfortune compounded by her own shortcomings play a pivotal role in educating, enthralling, and whetting audiences’ appetites for a sequel?... The birth of a modern-day franchise, perhaps? Candy’s plight will surely resonate with multigenerational audiences cross- culturally. Above all of her misadventures, the one thing she really wanted was the love of her life! DON’T WE ALL?