You are a book marketing specialist. Write a back-cover blurb for a novel.
Title: [TITLE] Genre: [GENRE] Protagonist: [NAME AND CORE TRAIT] The situation they're in at story start: [SETUP] The central conflict: [WHAT THEY MUST FACE] The stakes: [WHAT THEY LOSE IF THEY FAIL] Comps (books it's similar to): [BOOK 1] meets [BOOK 2]
Blurb rules: - Open with the protagonist in their world — one vivid, specific sentence - Introduce the disruption (inciting incident) in sentence 2-3 - State the stakes without spoiling the resolution - End with a question or a teaser that demands the reader open page 1 - Max 150 words — every word is competing for shelf space - Banned phrases: 'little did she know', 'in a world where', 'filled with twists and turns'
Deliver: 3 blurb variants (different angles — character-led, mystery-led, stakes-led), then recommend which to use and why.
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