The Last Waiting List

The government promised that no one would be abandoned. Eighteen months before the comet Orpheus strikes Earth, citizens are ordered to register, remain calm, and wait for evacuation. Emergency-room nurse Mara Venn follows every instruction, believing cooperation is the only way to secure refuge for her medically vulnerable brother. But the buses never arrive. As thousands gather inside Stadium Nine, supplies vanish, applications remain permanently "under review, " and selected passengers disappear aboard secret convoys.
Government communications director Daniel Vale discovers that the rescue program was never designed to save the public. Far from the desperate crowds, the wealthy and powerful are already retreating into fortified underground cities and a nuclear-powered ark built to outlast civilization itself. When the truth finally emerges, it may already be too late. While governments collapse and the sky begins to burn, those marked for abandonment must decide whether to keep waiting for salvation-or build a future without the people who betrayed them.
The Last Waiting List is a gripping dystopian political thriller about manufactured hope, bureaucratic cruelty, class privilege, survival, and the question that will define humanity's final days:Who deserves to inherit the world?