# Opening Hook Audit - Chapter 17

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FIRST 50 WORDS: `"June got home at ten-forty and didn't turn on the big light. She filled the kettle for tea she had no plan to drink, set her phone face-down by the stove, with Nia's thread in it and the fourth of December in the thread, and pulled the nine gray catalogs across..."`

- `HOOK-PRESENT — scene pressure visible` — "didn't turn on the big light" and "tea she had no plan to drink" put June in post-class disturbance before the reveal.
- `HOOK-PRESENT — unresolved objects active` — "Nia's thread," "the fourth of December," and "nine gray catalogs" carry current-book pressure without recap.
- `HOOK-PRESENT — chapter engine implied` — the catalogs enter before the title/acknowledgment page, so the discovery is seeded as work, not coincidence.
- `RISK-CLEARED — no false suspense` — the paragraph does not withhold what June sees; it names her avoidance and the physical work.

Chapter verdict: `HOOK-HOLDS`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.

