The Mother's Wheel is the final, thrilling conclusion to the Indie award-winning Bond Trilogy. The mutant draft Sil, who readers met in The Bond , leads a ragtag group of desperate refugees on an adventure to find hoped-for safety in The Deep. Along the way, they meet an orangutan who loves poetry and guards the narrow path into the jungle. But safety proves elusive as the refugees are pulled back into the war unfolding on the heights. A fearsome bee-mutant attacks as part of his plan to murder his sister, the lovely and dangerous Hive Queen. Will love or hate rule? Who, in the end, can you count on as family when you are the only one of your kind? Their destinies entwined, Sil, Dinitra, and Fir reunite and must choose between each other and the worlds they once called their own.   This is an epic fantasy that includes science fiction elements like genetic engineering, alt-world settings, and gripping adventure. Fans of Neal Shusterman's Arc of a Scythe series will love The Bond Trilogy. The Bond Trilogy should be required reading for all speculative fiction fans who are looking for something special. From the very first words of The Bond to the last sentence of The Mother's Wheel , Kirk has brought her story to life with a fascinating futuristic world, beloved characters, and hard-hitting themes, making this one of my all-time favorite series. I won't lie: I sobbed during parts of The Mother's Wheel , not only because the characters go through some very tough trials, but the culmination of three books' worth of growth and change simply did me in. Tammy Sparks, Books, Bones & Buffy, The characters are wonderfully written, and being able to follow a different character in each book sets the story out from others. YA Books Central The Mother's Wheel is a triumphant end to this thought-provoking YA scifi trilogy and asks just how much you are willing to do for the ones you love. @kevinscorner This series brings us on an incredible adventure with amazing characters in an often cruel world, while tackling such big themes as what it means to be human, to experience love (of all kinds), and to be truly free. @hollymbryan In the epic conclusion to her The Bond Trilogy, Kirk weaves nail-biting tension with poetic prose that will make any YA Fantasy fan swoon. Sarah Foil, book blogger Robin Kirk: Five things I learned writing The Bond Trilogy   "The Bond Trilogy" envisions a world where women rule, men fight to survive, and mutants must choose sides to win their own freedom. In The Bond , girls like Dinitra are engineered by Sowers, who plan to eliminate men once they can brew new generations in their laboratories. But resistance to this planned genocide grows. Rebels also fabricate humans: males to fight as the loyal warriors of their captain-mothers. Dinitra's loyalty to the Sowers is tested when she's captured by rebels and learns that everything she's been taught is a lie. The only things she can believe in are her mutant battle dog, 12, and Fir, the warrior-son she helps free and comes to love, a shameful crime everywhere that could cost both their lives. The Bond won a Foreward Indies Bronze in 2018.   In The Hive Queen , that warrior, Fir, escapes his captain-mother along with his brothers. Now, he's responsible for their lives—and deaths. On their quest for freedom, he encounters a mutant Hive Queen who compels Fir to betray his brothers and possibly his love for Dinitra. Fir must choose between them, his allegiance to the Queen, and his love for Dinitra. "Kirk takes what we know of this world, flips it on its head, and takes us even deeper than ever imaginable. Yet through all of this world-building the story doesn't slow down in the slightest. There's just action followed by more action and topped with a dash more action," wrote reader Zoe L. on Goodreads.   The Mother's Wheel is the thrilling conclusion. The mutant frog-girl Sil, who readers meet in The Bond, leads a ragtag group of desperate refugees to hoped-for safety in the jungle called The Deep. Along the way, they meet savage vulture-humans and a talking orangutan who loves poetry and guards the narrow path. Safety proves elusive as the refugees are pulled back into the war between the Sowers, the rebels, and the Hive Queen unfolding on the heights. Will love or hate rule? Who, in the end, can you count on as family when you are the only one of your kind? Their destinies entwined, Sil, Dinitra, and Fir reunite and must choose between each other and the worlds they once called their own. " The Mother's Wheel is a triumphant end to this thought-provoking YA sci-fi trilogy and asks just how much you are willing to do for the ones you love," writes bookstagrammer Kevin's Corner.   WRITING A TRILOGY IS... AN ADVENTURE . When I completed a draft of The Bond many moons ago, I was pretty satisfied with the story. Yes, I'd realized new things about it as I wrote, but I was pretty sure that this was the story I was compelled to tel