A Syrupy Romantic Story

By Ashton Lackey

Gabriel Early is a student in his last year at a Catholic high school in Vermont. He has done a lot of bad things on campus. He is in danger of being expelled and the nuns have no way of rehabilitating him until he meets a young nun, Sister Clara from the school’s adjoining convent. They fall in love with each other, but they are in trouble when they are caught kissing. Although the Mother Superior highly disapproves of the two in a relationship, they continue their relationship. Gabriel brings Clara to meet his parents who run a maple syrup farm. The relationship only gets “sweeter” towards the end of the book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ashton Lackey
• Release date: Mar 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215192016

Ashton Lackey

Ashton Lackey (Harrington A. Lackey) has been a Spanish instructor, translator, tutor and writer for the past 30 years. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and Anthropology from Eckerd College, a Master of Arts degree in Hispanic Literature from Auburn University, PhD candidate in Hispanic Literature at the University of Kentucky, and an Associate of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Nashville State Technical Institute. Ashton has taught Spanish classes at Auburn University, Louisiana State University, University of Kentucky, Columbia State Community College, and Belmont University. He started a successful tutoring business- "Learning Strategies," but is now retired.Ashton has completed 10 years of studying French from grammar school to high school. Also, he completed a semester of advanced French in Angers, France at the l’Université Catholique de l’Ouest.He has written three novels, based on historical fiction: "Rare Gold," "Disciple's Curse," and "The Admiral's Signature." He has also published over 150 articles on various subjects and short stories. Ashton is now retired and currently lives in Bluffton, SC with his wife, Diana, and one furry daughter.Ashton has translated over 10 novels from Spanish to English, ("La Celestina", "Lazarillo de Tormes") and from English to Spanish: ("The Healing Of Gala"). I have recently been translating into English: "La Primera Catedral", "Surreal (Y otros relatos), and "MainCastle: La leyenda del caballero blanco".His hobbies are: collecting coins, comic books, books and metal detecting.

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A Syrupy Romantic Story

By

Ashton Lackey

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

EPILOGUE

AUTHOR’S NOTES

PROLOGUE

Call me Gabriel Early or just Gabe. I was born and live in Vermont with parents who were sweet people and Pap brought the bacon home for me and Mom, by collecting sap from our maple trees and turning it into syrup for the syrup industry.

This sappy business named Vermont Papsap Maple Farm didn’t make us rich, but after I finished high school, my parents expected me to take over the sap industry. Although my parents and I aren’t Roman Catholic they sent me to school, a public Catholic school called the St. Joseph School to get a good education. For a public school, I suppose it was academically reputable, similar to private Catholic schools and I considered myself fortunate to have strict nuns who kept me in line from first grade until I turned almost 19.

From the time I started going to this school, I also made good friends with whom we did everything together. As we grew older, we got in trouble for getting involved in notorious activities: drinking, smoking, and having sex with girls whose names we didn’t know, but they weren’t nuns. I did have a growing lust for young nuns, which I assumed the nuns at the school already knew about my shenanigans.

But as our bad reputation got worse, the news got back to the nuns at school. Instead of expelling us, they tried to convert our lives into mirroring the lives of the saints. We had nuns teach us a lot about their church’s dogma. Of course,