Shared Fortunes

Two 8-year-old boys make a childhood pact to share all their worldly goods as long as they both shall live. Their bond continues as they progress through all life's phases, surviving multiple challenges of ridicule, derision, theft, and fraud. When the ultimate assault threatens to destroy the pact, will the two men's partnership come to ruin in the courtroom?

This account is not merely a coming-of-age story. Two 8-year-old boys from a small town solemnly vow to share all their worldly goods for a lifetime. It was a pact certain to fail with the passage of time – or was it? Their vow was refined over time, but resisted attacks from multiple sources: skepticism, derision, ridicule, theft, and fraud. The agreement that no one thought could last became a life-long bond between two disparate individuals who pursued very different careers. Separated by geography, personal relationships, ambitions, and women, the men stayed close through their childhood pact. When the final, ultimate assault comes, will they be destroyed and ruined? It is a story of friendship, partnership, trust, and reliance between two individuals through all of life's phases, culminating in a critical joint courtroom effort to save it all.

Mr. Campbell serves as a sole practitioner of a legal office in Dallas, Texas. He has served in leadership positions amongst investment banking firms; life insurance holding companies; and private practices specializing in corporate litigation, banking, and security law. This is his first fiction novel, though he has written several fiction short stories that may be read on his website, don-campbell.com, as well as a legal treatise on creditor's rights and two children's books.