The New York Times bestselling final installment of Jeff VanderMeer's wildly popular Southern
Reach Trilogy. It is winter in Area X the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation
for thirty years rebuffing expedition after expedition refusing to reveal its secrets. As
Area X expands the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it-the Southern Reach-has
collapsed in on itself in confusion. Now one last desperate team crosses the border
determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they
fail the outer world is in peril. Meanwhile Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the
circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X-what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among
the many who have tried who has gotten close to understanding Area X-and who may have been
corrupted by it? In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy the
mysteries of Area X may be solved but their consequences and implications are no less
profound-or terrifying.
