Abandon by Blake Crouch
Despite the negative reviews this book received I will openly and gladly admit that this story was a wonderful work of art. The story opens on Christmas Morning, 1893 in a little boom town called Abandon in Colorado. A town that was once filled with cheer has now been downgraded to simple survival mode through the winter months while the town's occupants decide if they'll stay on one more season? Maybe the mines will reopen and once again produce ore plenty enough to help the town regain it's footing. Maybe it'll close for good and Abandon will be reduced to yet another ghost town that seems to be rapidly spreading along the mountains in the West. This particular Christmas morning the towns preacher has a vision and hears a voice from God that tells him to gather all the towns people in the very mine that once gave Abandon so much life and joy, and seal the door forever trapping every man, woman and child in the dark, cold, wet subterranean environment that was t