BOSTON -- A Lawrence grade school principal was taken off the job Tuesday over accusations she peddled her racy novel at faculty meetings.

Beth Gannon, principal at the Henry K. Oliver School, was placed on indefinite leave after the teachers' union complained to Lawrence administrators that she regularly attempted to sell her novel, "Crazy Fortunes" on school grounds.

The union claimed Gannon's actions were inappropriate since the novel contains explicit sex scenes, binge drinking, drug use and suicide.

The novel tells the story of an engaged woman who returns to Boston for a wedding and reunites with a former lover.

Lawrence Superintendent Wilfred Laboy described Gannon as "emotionally fragile" and said she will be off the job while a "fact-finding" investigation is underway.