Someone! I half sob and then, quieter, please. The words seem to be absorbed by the afternoon heat, lost among the trees. Silence descends again. I then know that I am going nowhere. Sean is on the run. We don’t know why and from whom, but we know that he has left his battered, blood-stained car in the middle of a remote, lonely part of rural France during a stifling hot summer. Desperate to avoid the police, he flees into the parched fields and country roads, only to be caught in the cruel grip of a trap. Nearly unconscious from pain and blood loss, he is rescued and taken in by two women - daughters of the owner of a rundown local farm with its dilapidated barn, devastated vineyard, and gloomy lake. And it is then that Sean's problems truly begin. Masterfully written, Stone Bruises is a classic thriller that captivates you from the very start. The narrative slowly, inexorably sinks its claws in as the story unfolds, leaving you in suspense until the disturbing and shocking twist at the end.