Goya’s Secret is part sci-fi, part fantasy, with a splash of mythology and a dollop of magic for good measure.

Jason MacKenzie is a jaded journo for the New York Times who’s tired of riding his desk and longs for adventure.

When his best friend and one-time art partner is murdered by a ruthless assassin on the hunt for an otherworldly bracelet that defies scientific scrutiny, he joins forces with the beautiful and enigmatic two-hundred-year-old witch, Eva, to search for both treasure and truth.

The pair travels to Madrid, where they attend the funeral of their friend, only to discover that the very artifact in question has been buried with the victim. Naturally, they hatch a plot to break into the crypt and steal it back. The plan goes awry, however, when Eva cold cocks Jason and absconds with the bracelet. 

Jason becomes the unlikely hero in a quest that takes him across Europe and up into the icy reaches of Canada, weaving back and forth between the present day and an ancient, fantastical past where celestial beings and giants roamed the earth.

Along the way he discovers an obscure connection between the Nazis, the Occult and the Spanish Inquisition, meets an ancient Indian tribe tasked with safeguarding the future of the planet and encounters a diary, written by the painter Goya more than two hundred years ago, which tells of a secret, that if made public, would shake the very foundations of what we know of what it is to be human.