Pippin & Nacho

MM Urban Romance (Alpha's Rejects, Book 2)

De: Courtney W. Dixon

Narrado por: Harley Chase

He was my very survival. Without him, I was nothing.

Pippin (Sampson)

I’m broken, hiding my pain behind fake smiles and pretend joy. Inside, I’m a mental mess between being tossed into conversion therapy and foster care as a kid. I struggle to focus and suffer anxiety, panic attacks, and nightmares. My passions for skateboarding and bartending make me happy enough. But only Nate, my former foster brother and best friend, calms me and keeps me going forward. I’m not sure what I would do without him. Even worse, I secretly love him. Loving him could mean losing him.

Nacho (Nate)

I’d been in and out of foster care for as long as I could remember. My last home was with Sam. We quickly became friends, and I instantly went into protective mode. After Sam got hurt by our foster father, I took Sam out of there and watched over him for two years while living on the streets. When you spend a lifetime not being wanted by anyone, you crave being needed, and Sam needs me. But I secretly love him. I’ve told my friends I don’t want to ruin my friendship with Sam. The truth is if we don’t work out, I won’t be there to take care of him. Sam’s needs are more important than my feelings.

MM Urban, Found Family, New Adult, Best Friends to Lovers, Secret Love, Pining, Skateboarder Romance

CW: Conversion therapy and abuse, suicidal ideations, panic attacks, anxiety, PTSD, iatrophobia (intense fear of doctors), abandonment, co-dependency, mental health rep.

©2024 Courtney W. Dixon (P)2025 Courtney W. Dixon

the best audio narrator!

Pippin & Nacho are just goals, ok? They are the epitome of best friends to lovers, they are soulmates who will do anything for each other! Are they codependent? 100%. But to have that type of devotion? Amazing. Reading this story was a wonderful experience, but listening to it? 💋 Chef's kiss! Harley Chase once again absolutely killed the audio on this, he has such expressive and emotive narration! I loved it so much!!

Fantastic series

I have loved everything put out by this author, and this book is no exception. Also, Harley Chase has come out of nowhere as one of my go to listen narrators! He is so talented and puts so much emotion into his work.

Sam and Nate have been through extremely difficult times. Once they met each other in foster care, they each found somebody to love and support them unconditionally. They refused to be separated from that point forward, no matter what struggles that might mean for them. This book follows them through hard times and growth, from oblivious best friends to lovers. I especially enjoyed the focus on found family, and how great they all are.

I adored the epilogue, and would love to see a companion book that updates on each couple 10 years later.

Pippin & Nacho

Harley brought this book to life. It was a great book when you read it. But herding the emotion Harley has with Courtney’s words….perfection.

Broken and beautiful

Pippin and Nacho is a heartbreaking yet empiwering look at love and acceptance overcoming trauma and hate. This series is spectacular and these characters are especially endeaing. There is so much fantastic representation in this book.

As always the narrator is fantastic. He's perfect for these characters and I loved listening to this audiobook! Open door spice level: 4/5

I love Harley Chase sweet heartbreaking read!

I’ve quickly become addicted to the narration of Harley Chase he does these boys all so well! Stix and Stone was so good but Pippin and Nacho had me in tears. I love a good best friends to lovers, but these guys are so much more. They are family,
Each others person, their guiding starts. I was in all my feels for Pippin, besides his neurodivergence he is suffering from horrible trauma. His parents sent him to a conversion camp, he ran away from home, put into the foster system where he meets Nacho. Nacho just wants to help and save pippin from the begining and so their story begins. Between homelessness, trauma, abandonment issues, and more these two make a life together. They fall in love not telling one another, and then one silly sweet night they become more. I seriously LOVED them! Oh and bring the tissues especially for that last 25% of the book😭