Most people know Monica as "Monica Payton". She married and changed her name. Monica will merge her illustrious career in medicine as a physician assistant and novelist, with a budding legal career focused on medical-legal consulting.
It was Monica's fascination with biomedical research and genomics, immediately following announcement of completion of the Human Genome Project in 2002, that lead her to pen two medical thrillers, Black Deception and the sequel, Cloning.
Monica was featured in the local newspaper "Our Weekly" and UNAC.