AUTHOR'S NOTE
Just a quick note: Chapter 22 (The Ending!) will be up in the next two days. I want to thank all the reader's who took the time to review this story. Once again, my story took on a life of its own. I really thought the story would have ended in about 16 chapters.
I also want to thank all the readers who kept my friend, Billie, in their thoughts and prayers following her accident. Unfortunately, I have sad news to report. Her final diagnosis is a complete C3 quadriplegic. She is off the ventilator and breathing on her own but can only move her head and shrug her shoulders. This is a permanent injury unless medical science can come up with a way of regenerating the spinal cord. Please continue to keep her in your thoughts.
On a happier note, now that I've finished with "Redemption", I am going to work on my sequel to "Three Minutes". I'll pick up the story when Voyager has exited the transwarp conduit. Until I post the next story, I want to wish all the reader's a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year.
CatC