Monet Jones

Monet is a past board member of the South Carolina Writer's Workshop, a statewide non-profit organization with chapter workshops in all major cities. The SCWW sponsors intensives throughout the year and a Writers' Workshop Conference featuring top editors, agents, and writers at Myrtle Beach each October. He is also the president of its Columbia III chapter workshop.

Monet is the author of two novels, REHOBOTH, an action/adventure story of the future, and a second, CAPTIVE YOUTH, a young adult thriller. He is currently writing SELAH, the sequel to REHOBOTH and TRACE, the sequel to CAPTIVE YOUTH. Monet is retired from teaching Computer Electronics in Richland School District Two and now writes and helps writers full time. He lives with his wife, Kathy, in the small town of Elgin SC, near Columbia.

Rehoboth

Science Fiction

Even as Jarret celebrates the successful completion of a project, the Supreme Command Officer forces him back into military service. Assigned a no-win mission to a distant planet, he learns Ann, his former love interest, will be his commanding officer.

Unknown forces attempt to kill them both as they prepare for the mission. During this time, they discover an alternate dimension, which allows them to meet and rekindle their love.
They voyage to Rehoboth and find the domed city to be a place of wonderful harmony. However, they brought with them the seeds of the city’s destruction.

Circumstances force Jarret to climb the central mountain and confront “the Geek” in his fortress. There, Jarret unveils extraordinary secrets but discovers an even greater mystery.

Is the idyllic lifestyle enjoyed by Rehoboth caused by their relationship with the Holy One? Or is their advanced technology sending them messages thought to be from an omnipotent being?

Captive Youth

Young Adult Thriller

Keith’s boring life becomes a fight for survival when a half-naked, handcuffed Mexican girl jumps into his little sports car. Events escalate to mortally dangerous when a man starts shooting at and chasing them.

Raised by his grandmother as a “Christian gentleman,” Keith quickly learns that behaving in accordance with those values is more difficult than he imagined. Not understanding the Spanish the girl speaks, he contacts his girlfriend for help in translation. She tells him members of a human-trafficking ring are pursuing them, and local police can’t be trusted.

When his girlfriend tries to help them find safety, members of the trafficking ring kidnap all three teenagers. Faced with the threat of abuse and death, the young people must depend on each other if they are to escape.

Set in the South of the U.S. during the tumultuous sixties, this thriller immerses one in the limitations, mores, and prejudices of the time.