The Distance Between Heartbeats

A concert pianist built on discipline and silence meets the one truth she can’t outplay: a tremor in her right hand and the unfinished songs of a life lived for perfection. In luminous, breath-held chapters, The Distance Between Heartbeats follows a return from burnout to belonging—through a recording studio’s red light, a doctor’s gentle orders to rest, the memory of a lover who taught her to “slow the pauses,” and the terrifying grace of stepping back onstage without guarantees.

Part love letter to music, part meditation on the art of being human, this lyrical novel asks what remains when mastery falters—and answers with a fragile, shining honesty: the body’s rhythm, the courage to be unfinished, and a performance that lives in the quiet between notes.

©2025 Terrie Annette Jezierski (P)2025 Terrie Annette Jezierski