Planting His Dream

Andrew Grey's Planting His Dream, is a superb, riveting romance.

Foster finds himself in charge of the family farm after his father dies. He meets Javi when he shows up to work the farm.

Life for these two young men is not easy. Foster's trying to revive the farm and keep it running, while Javi is stuck living under his father's thumb. To say his dad is controlling is putting it lightly.

As tough as Foster's life is, he realizes how much he has, how lucky he is, and all the things he took for granted. His supportive family is absolutely delightful.

Both young men are used to putting their own goals aside for their family, trying to provide for them. They are living by their obligations to take care of, protect, and provide for their families.

I love this story. These are two young men who have intense longing and chemistry, but struggle to be together because of their circumstances. It's a tale of courage and strength, and the importance of being true to yourself.

The farm and the land are wonderfully described, allowing the reader to become engrossed in the atmosphere. We experience the struggles, weather, and harness of farm life along with these characters.

Planting His Dream is full of attraction, struggles and allowing yourself to love. It's a fantastic romance, with all the ambiance of the farm and life of the farm. I truly enjoyed this book!

This book you will fall in love with the characters and the story. Foster family is depending on him more and more since the passing of his father. Foster has put a lot of his life on hold, when he starts to have a small feeling for Javi. The problem is that he works for Foster family and how do you stop your feelings. You see the journey that these two make daily to protect and provide for their family. Will that be enough for them or someone play the price for some happiness. Highly recommend this book.

Andrew when you write a book, you write it well. You make readers believe in the story. And of course you made me cry when Foster was waiting all that time for Avie to come back.And when he did, I lost it! Thank you for such a wonderful story. Hugs.

Planting His Dream is a story that contains a romance but is also a description of what it is like to run a family farm and what the realities are for migrant farm workers. Both are unrelentingly difficult work. Owning a family farm, in this case a dairy farm that grows feed for the dairy cattle and a truck farm for the family, has inherent with it the opportunity and hope to grow more profitable and pass the heritage of the land down to the next generation. Migrant farm workers own very little, often just the vehicle they travel from farm to farm in. Their lives can be so hopeless and frightening for day to day sustenance that the workers sometimes self-medicate their depression with alcohol and drugs, which only compounds the problems. The children of migrant workers are often seen as free labor when they are working small farms, out of sight of government representatives.
Foster has come home to his family’s farm after his father’s sudden death to help his mother and grandmother. His father had hidden the fact that he had mismanaged the farm’s finances and it was now in deep debt, unknown to the rest of the family. It is up to Foster to find ways to increase income and pay down that debt. He becomes quite creative in ways to increase income.
Javi, his parents, and his younger siblings arrive at Foster’s farm to pick the asparagus crop, which Foster’s father planted with the intention of it being a cash crop. They arrive early, nearly starving and out of money. Javi looks to Foster for work until the asparagus crop is ready. This family has secrets, terrible secrets. One of Javi’s secrets is that he is gay. Foster has the same secret, and when they find comfort in each other love begins to blossom.
In the end, though, Javi must move on with his family as he is the glue that holds them together through his father’s drinking binges and aggressive violence. I thought this was going to be a very unusual Andrew Grey story without an HEA at the end, but Mr. Grey writes stories that he would want to read and he always wants an HEA at the end of the stories he enjoys. How Foster and Javi get their HEA is heartbreaking. You may need a few tissues.
I loved this book so much. It is achingly real and shows what being a farmer and a farm worker are like. It isn’t something people can do for a hobby. It is backbreaking work and they are at the mercy of the weather, crop prices, middlemen, and other things out of their control. Highly recommended as a book that truly earns its HEA.

My heart belonged to sweet, loyal Foster from the first of this book! I love the knack Andrew Grey has for making you fall in love with his characters as well as his books!
Foster works hard to keep the family farm afloat with the passing of his father and his mother and grandmother depend on him, so Foster's wants and needs get put on the back burner, but he can't help noticing Javi, one of the members of the family that works for Foster every so often, helping with the Asparagus crop, but Javi would never like a guy like him, would he? Does Javi even like guys?
Javi has had it rough, as has his mother and siblings, his father's drinking has made Javi grow weary of travelling around, working hard and having nothing to show for it. When he sees Foster again he beings to long for things he knows he could never have, or could he? Javi's family depends on him, he has to be strong for them.
When Javi has ideas to help Foster, he is surprised when Foster not only listens, but offers to let him help. For the first time Javi has stability and a taste of what a stable love and family might be like. When Javi is forced to make a decision between Foster and his family, someone will be hurt. Can Javi live without Foster and vice versa?
You will be sucked into this wonderful story just like I was! Thank you Andrew, for a great story I will read again and again!