Hawke's Harbor
An orphan and a bastard, Jamie Sommers grew up knowing he had no hope of heaven. Conceived in adultery and born in sin, Jamie was destined to repeat the sins of his parents – or so the nuns told him. And he proved them right. Taking to sea, Jamie sought out danger and adventure in exotic ports all over the world as a smuggler, gunrunner – and murderer. Tough enough to handle anything, he's survived foreign prisons, pirates, and a shark attack. But in a quiet seaside town in Delaware, Jamie discovered something that was enough to drive him insane-and change his life forever. For it was in Hawkes Harbor that Jamie came face to face with the ultimate evil....
S. E. Hinton
Susan Eloise Hinton was born in 1948 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Outsiders, her first novel, was published in 1967. It was followed by That Was Then, This is Now, published in 1971 and, in 1975, Rumble Fish. In 1988, she became the first person to receive the YASD/SLJ Author Achievement Award, which was given by the Young Adult Services Division of the American Library Association and School Library Journal. S. E. Hinton lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her family.