Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. But few know that Kidd had an accomplice. That accomplice was his wife, Sarah Kidd, a well-to-do woman whose extraordinary life is a lesson is survival, resilience 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 More remarkable still is that Sarah not only survived the tragedy wrought by her infamous husband’s deeds, but went on to live a successful and productive life as one of New York’s most prominent and respectable citizens. Marshalling in newly discovered primary source documents from archives, historian and journalist Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos reconstructs the extraordinary life of Sarah Kidd, uncovering a rare example of the kind of life that pirate wives lived during the "Golden Age of Piracy."