CARYN BRUER (ANNE ELWICK) First time novelist Caryn Anne Bruer (published as Anne Elwick) was born in East Texas. An avid reader all of her life, she was influenced mostly by Louis Lamour, Janet Daily, and Danielle Steele. She began writing poetry and short stories as a teenager. Always having the knack to remember details and repeat stories she had heard, she was quite popular when it came time to sit with a group and spin yarns. All through her life she has entertained family and friends with her tales. Writer friends over the years have encouraged her to pursue a writing career. She has appeared as a guest columnist in newspapers in Texas and Arkansas. Caryn (Anne) has written numerous poems and short stories as well. Active in her community, she has served as President of Van Buren EHC, and Key Person for Project Compassion, and has taught Remedial Reading in the PALS Program at the middle school level. She currently holds membership in The Red Hat Society, River Valley Writers, Wizards of Words, Romance Writers of America and Mid-America Authors. Ms. Bruer studied creative writing in Texas and later in Arkansas while raising a family and pursuing a lengthy career in Office Management. She has often marveled at how fate has placed her "in the right place at the right time" in order to meet some of the most famous and "notorious" people of her time, including three U.S. presidents. WE DON'T SAY GOODBYE This is a touching story of a woman who gives her love completely and unselfishly. Judith falls in love with Riley as a teenager. Along with her best friend Kate, they become known among their schoolmates as The Three Musketeers because they are inseparable. While in college Judith takes a summer job that keeps her in Sacramento while Riley and Kate return to their homes in Santa Barbara. Riley and Kate have a "one-night-thing", and Kate becomes pregnant. The choices the three of them make to resolve that crisis will shape the rest of their lives. You will find common ground with the characters as circumstances evolve. The love, the laughter, the tears ... all the joys and tragedies that affect them from year to year ... have occured in the lives of most of us at one time or another. The choices they make, and the outcome will leave you asking yourself whether you could love someone that much. An immature mistake in judgment tore them apart over thirty years ago and now they have one last chance to be together. As they travel to Reno so Judith can gain her freedom to marry the man she has loved almost all of her life, a tragic accident separates them once again. While she waits for him to come to her, as she knows he will, her memory travels back in time to the events that lead her to this place in time. And as Riley struggles to reach her, he recalls happy times and sad times, as well as some he'd rather forget. Now retired, the author, Anne Elwick, currently resides with her husband, Art, in western Arkansas, near the foothills of the Ozarks where she is currently at work on her next novel. www.anneelwick.com __________________________________________________________ To purchase this book and any others listed on this website, please click on any of the following: AMAZON BOOKS AMAZON BOOKS (UK) BARNES & NOBLE WALDENBOOKS