Editing Dirk Pitt (section)

=== Summer Moran ===
{{Infobox character
| name = Summer Moran
| first = [[Pacific Vortex!]]
| last = [[Valhalla Rising (novel)|Valhalla Rising]]
| children = [[Dirk Pitt Jr.]]<br>
[[Summer Pitt]]
| relatives = Father: Delphi Moran.<br>
Grandfather: Dr. Frederick Moran.
| nationality = {{United States}}
| significant_others = Dirk Pitt
| creator = [[Clive Cussler]]
}}Dirk first meets Summer at  Royal Hawaiian Hotel, when she is trying to seduce him where Dirk feels an instant attraction to her, and later tries to assassinate him. 

She rescues Dirk Pitt from peril by swiftly severing the rope tethering his hands, deftly slipping a knife into his grasp just in time to thwart her father's men from orchestrating his demise in his hotel room. 

Summer is the mother of his twin children, Dirk Pitt Jr. and Summer Pitt. She is often described as Pitt's first real love. The daughter of deranged scientist Frederick Moran, she is believed dead by Pitt when she is lost during an attempt to rescue her father as his underwater lair collapses. As revealed by 23-year-old Dirk Pitt Jr. when the two meet at the end of the novel ''[[Valhalla Rising (book)|Valhalla Rising]]'', Summer in fact survives, badly maimed by the incident, and refuses to seek him out because she wants Pitt to remember her as he knew her. She gives birth to the twins shortly thereafter and raises them, naming them after their parents.