[PREORDER] The Basin

By: Sydney Madison

Release Date: October 20th, 2026

Far out west, where the dust is laced with gunpowder and the red soil bleeds betrayal, three families toil, all in desperate want of the same thing.

And as always, love lay at the center.

BETTY CARTER’s inheritance was always going to be two-fold: the Basin, that magical swath of land out west that raised her, and Mateo Garcia, her first love from the neighboring plains whose hands had only really been carved to hold hers. But an inheritance is not always a blessing, and a terrible summer sends Betty far from her first love and into the terrifying hands of the Barnes—the very family who's been hell bent on destroying everything the Basin stands for.

MATEO GARCIA has spent the past fifteen years in a relentless purgatory. The land dried up after that summer, the one that saw his parents dead, his eldest sister disappeared, and Betty Carter gone. But he could never abandon his birthright, his fate, the way she did. Her choice may haunt him, may have cursed the land, but he’ll be damned if he lets the Barnes poison their home again.

But fate is nothing if not a winding road, and after a threat to her grandfather by the man she married and a haunting vision of what’s to come, Betty goes hurtling back to the Basin and into the arms of the only man she ever truly loved.

Can love unstitch the threads of the past, or will they be forced to lie in the beds they’ve made?

The Basin is not a historical romance. It takes place in an imagined West, in neither the past nor present.
Enjoy the ride.