Lives in Time: Part One -- finished(ish)

Part One of my novel is is, for certain values of the word, finished. By this I mean that I've written all the scenes necessary to get from the beginning of the story to the end. From here, it will take several weeks' effort to troll through it and tighten up the sentences, fix issues, fluff up things that need it... you know, editing. I have it in the hands of one beta reader right now, and am open to hearing from others if they're interested in slogging through 48,637 words of my blather. I have it in Google Doc form, with comments enabled for reviewers.

Thank you to everyone who helped me with the parts you did, in particular @Hammer, @ChickenFreak, who invited me to join this forum in the first place (yeah, blame her!), @Harmonices, @The Piper, @GrahamLewis, @Iain Aschendale... oh, crap, this list is getting long. Well, all of you, thank you for your support.

I may post fragments of the story as beta readers call them out, asking for input on them, but I won't bore you with continuation of the serialization that I have been posting. Once I'm finished with this, it's on to Part Two, which I expect to be short, and Part Three, which I expect to be longer than Part One.

Wish me luck. Thank you all again.

JD