Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever sail the seas. But few know the behind-the-scenes player who enabled his plundering and helped him outpace his enemies. That accomplice was his wife Sarah, a well-to-do woman whose extraordinary life is a lesson in reinvention and resourcefulness. Twice widowed by twenty-one and operating within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York, Sarah secretly aided and abetted her husband, fighting off his accusers alongside him.

Marshaling newly discovered sources from archives in London, New York and Boston, historian and journalist Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos reconstructs her life and places it within the city, a “utopia” for pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy. A compelling tale of love, treasure, motherhood and survival, The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd weaves together the personal and the epic in a sweeping historical story of romance and adventure.