Heartbeat [Lifeline Fanfic]

[Book 1 Of The Heartbeat Chronicles]

"No amount of standing on hilltops on dark nights and surveying the heavens could prepare a man for the actuality of space travel, because the earthbound observer saw only the stars, not what separated them. They glittered in his vision, filling his eyes, and he had no choice but to assign them a position of importance in the cosmic scheme. The space traveler saw things differently. He was made aware that the universe consisted of emptiness, that the suns and nebulae were almost an irrelevancy, that the stars were nothing more than a whiff of gas diffusing into infinity. And sooner or later that knowledge began to hurt." - Bob Shaw, Ship of Strangers

Ash Maddox has always been a normal 15-year-old girl in the year 2236 from Old New York City. Well, except that she has no mother and a 29-year-old father who got stranded on a moon in another solar system far away, but that's another story for another time. She goes to public school, has friends, enemies too and she does all the normal teenage girl things.
But one day her father, Taylor, was assigned on his first official mission into space and Ash doesn't want to risk losing her only parent so she plots out to prevent him from going. But instead of preventing him from going she accidentally ends up getting dragged along for the ride. She doesn't have a single fear about the voyage until things take a turn for the worst and she ends up stranded on a planet alone with her father.
Ash doesn't think she has any connections with this new planet at all, or that it would have any importance to anything. Little did she know that this planet contained everything that had to do with her, it was just a matter of time until she found out all its secrets and everything this new planet had to offer. The only challenge she faced: Not dying.

[Disclaimer thing: I obviously do not own Lifeline; Or the cover art for that matter; so rightful credit goes to its rightful owners.]