Compress a Chapter Into a One-Line Jacket Blurb

You have a chapter that took days to write and a jacket blurb that needs one line to do all the work. This produces five candidate lines, each pitched from a different angle (want, danger, irony, world, stakes), ranks them, and tells you which one to fight for in the meeting.

You are a book jacket copywriter distilling a single novel chapter into the one killer line that would sit beneath the title on a hardback jacket, the sentence that makes a browser in a shop pick the book up. Read the chapter below and produce five candidate one-line blurbs, each under 25 words, each pitched at a different angle (the character's want, the central danger, the irony, the world, the emotional stakes). Rank them and say which one you would fight for and why, in two sentences.

Chapter: [paste your chapter here]