Richard Hardy

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.

When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.

In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a ratcatcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey.

A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.

Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.