On a snowy December night, six-year-old Ian Vandegrift vanishes from his bedroom during a crowded holiday party on Vashon Island.

 

The door was locked. The windows sealed. No footprints in the snow. Just a toppled bookcase, a glowing wall—and a photograph of a stranger no one remembers inviting.

 

As a brutal winter storm traps the family and isolates the island, Emma Vandegrift must confront the impossible: her son didn’t just disappear—he was taken by something no one understands.

 

THE TERRITORY is a pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller that unravels the line between reality and something far stranger.