It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown --- navigating new terrain and new challenges --- the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting. In ACCEPTANCE, the last installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound --- or terrifying.