{"product_id":"the-willow-mark-phillip-kraver-9780990586340","title":"The Willow","description":"\u003cp\u003eManhattan, 1712.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy day, Abigail Spragg is a respectable businesswoman living along Manhattan's Hudson River. By night, she guards one of the colony's most dangerous secrets-the Pirate Bank, a hidden vault beneath her home where the plunder of the world's most feared pirates lies buried in silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor years, the bloodstained wealth has haunted her investments. Now, it calls her to action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA letter arrives from the vanished pirate king himself-\"Long Ben.\" Better known as Henry Avery, this is a man who dared to defy empires by seizing the Mughal of India's opulent ship laden with treasure, then disappearing at sea. His letter's command is as startling as his legend: use his treasure to build a school for young women in New Haven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe request audacious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe opportunity irresistible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaught between the profitable shadows of piracy and a radical vision of power through education, Abigail steps into a dangerous game-one that tests her wits against ministers, magistrates, and community beliefs and interests. Her headstrong daughters, Hannah and Sarah, push her toward a future she neither fully understands nor welcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery move Abigail makes reshapes the colony. Pirate gold flows quietly into the community, stirring ambition in Connecticut's Collegiate School-soon to uproot itself and rise again under a new name in New Haven: Yale College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut secrecy breeds enemies. In a world ruled by men, a woman wielding power may be the greatest threat of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they aren't wrong. Abigail Spragg has one goal: to forge a future where women shape the world as fiercely as any captain who ever sailed the sea-and to honor her client's daring charge by turning pirate gold into a legacy far greater than plunder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Phillip Kraver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0990586340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780990586340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kraver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d","brand":"Mark Phillip Kraver","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801281933567,"sku":"9780990586340","price":16.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-willow-mark-phillip-kraver-9780990586340","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}