While on a childhood vacation on Mackinac Island, Michigan, eight year old Harker Jones and his younger sister are drawn by a caricature artist. The caricaturist draws and labels his little sister "cute," while drawing and labelling Harker as a "clown." For years, and until only very recently, those two images haunted him for as they hung on the wall of his family's home.

Harker Jones grew up on a dirt road in Michigan in a town so small it doesn’t to this day have a traffic light. He has written an Amazon #1 best-selling love story,