Where Enemies Meet: The Long Con Stuns as an Adult Debut

Olivia Lindquist ’26 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer

Author Jenna Voris’ adult fiction debut, The Long Con, is set for publication on June 2nd, 2026. Pitched for fans of Ocean’s 8 and Glen Erik Hamilton’s Van Shaw series, The Long Con weaves together a story of grief and an action-packed heist to create an electrifying novel. Jenna Voris has primarily written sapphic literature in the YA genre with titles Made of Stars, Every Time You Hear That Song, and Say a Little Prayer, but she knocks it out of the park with this one.

The story follows Chloe Bly, a woman working as a hotel restaurant waitress to get by as she’s saddled with her late mother’s medical debt, and her friends as they pull off different heists and cons against Miami’s elite. After a failed con thanks to Chloe’s arch-enemy Harper Parisi, Chloe is summoned to a meeting with Andrew Carlyle—a man up for Republican governor in Florida who owns the hotel she works at.

Carlyle waves five million dollars in front of Chloe and Harper’s faces, drawing them into the biggest con the two have ever pulled, with the goal of stealing a cheap award from the fortress of a hotel Harper’s mother owns: The Rivera. The Rivera is settled on its own private island with a private staff—impossible to breach without the right money or, in Chloe’s case, the right contacts.

As Chloe’s friends, Priya and Logan, help them play Harper while fighting for the five million dollar prize, Chloe learns her feelings of hatred for Harper start to shift into something of desire, jeopardizing the heist as tensions rise.

The novel sits at a little under three hundred pages that only escalates as the story moves along. Voris’ theme of grief is palpable throughout the novel, giving the reader a taste of what it’s like to lose a parental figure. She works hard to make Chloe’s homesickness for Ireland, a country she’s never been to but has strong ties to, and her hatred for Harper Parisi come through on the page, pulling it off in a twisting narrative that never loses sight of what’s at Chloe’s core.

Spoilers Ahead

As with any Jenna Voris novel, this is a great sapphic read to begin Pride month with and it’s beautifully written. The closure Chloe gets at the end is something LGBT+ readers have been asking for in traditional publishing novels for years. Voris proves that not every queer character has to be defined by a romantic relationship—especially if the relationship was toxic from the beginning. It truly is a masterclass in how authors and readers are changing the direction of LGBT+ reads and paving the way for a larger market of sapphic stories.

Jenna Voris is currently writing a sapphic tragedy inspired by Hadestown—which she recently announced on her TikTok—but for now, this queer Ocean’s 8 novel can be found at any local bookstore beginning on June 2nd.

Olivia Lindquist received an ARC copy of The Long Con by Jenna Voris from Penguin Random House.