Life in Mercy Hospital’s emergency room is life stripped to the bone. Housekeeper Crow Dorango, recent widow of a brilliant jazz musician, keeps her head down and her troubles to herself as she mops the floors of this inner-city ER. At this point in her life, Crow “wants nothing she can’t afford to lose.” In the hierarchical world of the hospital, she’s nearly as invisible as the ghost of Dr. Glass, who was head of the department until his untimely death in a shooting incident. The ER staff is headed by Dr. Thomas Graystone, a man enormously dedicated but also rigid and proud, thus far immune to the fevers and messiness of love. When Crow and Graystone meet unexpectedly on her turf, a Greenwich Village jazz club, a slow fuse lights between this most unlikely couple. A HEARTBEAT AWAY combines an offbeat love story with a modern-day homage to Pride and Prejudice.