Synopsis

Beth and Jacob have a normal life, a healthy son, and a farm with a secret: a field where nothing lives. Cattle that stray too near die. Townspeople disappear in the night. And every day the dead acre grows larger. Then one night, Beth and Jacob's infant son is taken from them. What follows is a frantic search for their child.

Official Review

Meet the Nance’s – your average young American family, looking to move to a peaceful, affordable town, where they can make a living and raise their little boy Michael. Budding life – a new marriage, a new home, a new child. In The Empty Acre, all of this will be decimated to dust. Where there should be happiness and elation, there is depression and aggravation. Where there should be cattle and fresh budding crops are corpses and a plot of earth so dead, not a blade of grass can survive on it. Something is out there on the Nance’s farm – a nothingness so dark and needy that it is feeding off every bit of life around it. …Read More