Status Updates From Scribes' Descent (Scribes #1)

West writes so well that I was fully invested in his characters and their world so that when crisis hit on page 31 I was all in.

This sounds really exciting: An old mine sits at the epicenter of the recent quake, and an unbreakable alien barrier seals it off. But a door hidden in its surface opens for Mallory when she translates its engravings. Once inside, she evades underground predators while cut off from the tech that's always protected her.