Annihilation

Annihilation is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer and is the first book of the Southern Reach Series. The novel follows a team of four women who are sent into a government-managed, uninhabited location called Area X to study and survey the land and ecosystem. They are the twelfth expedition, with previous expeditions having fallen apart due to disappearances, suicides, aggressive cancers, and mental trauma.