
Featured Book
ANTiQUE
A Novel, by Seth Panitch
Release Date: February, 2026
Grand Central Publishing
Set in the captivating world of Antiques Roadshow, ANTIQUE follows a once celebrated appraiser as she fights her way back to the summit of the Art World with the mysterious help of a powerful object of unknown provenance…and power.
Grace Schaffer has the eye and empathy of a virtuoso appraiser. Raised by an eminent but emotionally withdrawn scholar, her talent landed her a coveted spot on Antiques Roadshow, where she charmed legions of viewers with her mastery of painting and provenance, as well as her genuine fascination in both object and owner. But she’s since fallen from her gilded perch, losing her marriage in the process, and has been left asking what her clients so often ask her, What is it worth? Or, the question that beats beneath, What am I worth?
In a last ditch attempt to revive her spirits and her career, she signs on to an amateur travelling show, and during an otherwise routine appraisal of an old, weathered necklace – a corroded copy of an ancient ceremonial artifact – she finds herself overwhelmed by a strange and sudden confidence, declaring the necklace worth thousands of dollars.
It falls into her hands, and when her next appraisals sell for precisely the amount she believes they must, regardless of their market values, Grace finds herself travelling down a perilous but irresistible path toward a reckoning with the fading memory of her father, the puzzling legacy of her mother, and the wounded sense of her own worth; a road that ends in the shocking discovery of a “Grail,” every appraiser’s dearest dream–the revelation of a lost masterpiece, powerful enough to change the way we view art, and therefore, our very humanity.
With her critics waiting to pounce, a final showdown occurs in the hallowed halls of Sotheby’s Auction House, with the whole art world waiting and watching to see if what Grace has deemed an unknown painting by Master Impressionist William Kent is genuine–or just an inferior pretender.
For readers of THE ART FORGER by B.A. Shapiro and CLARA AND MR. TIFFANY by Susan Vreeland who enjoy novels of art and love, ANTIQUE delivers a smart, moving, and entertaining story that will leave readers believing in the magic that lies within us all – should we dare to use it.

Editing in the New Year
All still on pace for a 2026 release!
“Seth Panitch writes. All the time. It limits his ability to throw tennis balls for me in the backyard. He tells me there is good reason for this; that he is working to tell stories to people. I think people are okay, so long as they give me treats or let me pounce upon them. If his stories make them give me more treats, I think that is good, and his writing is good. If his stories make them sit down, and this gives them meatier laps to pounce upon, I think that is good, and his writing is good. If people listen to his stories on their phones while they jog past me, and they are too swift for me to pounce upon, I think that is bad, and his writing is destroying the Universe.
-Moses Panitch, ESQ. Dog.