Sam Gordon is followed by someone dressed like a wizard. He figures the guy to be another San Francisco lunatic until the man meets Sam at his favorite café carrying on about time continuum portals. Assured of the man's insanity, Sam escapes out the back door, which drops him into a strange place.

In a land of green grass and no automobiles, Sam cannot find the door back to the café. He questions his sanity and sets out to find someone who can give him directions. When he is attacked by a swordsman on horseback, a beautiful young woman named Margot, intervenes. She speaks an archaic dialect of Anglo-Saxon — a language Sam didn't know until that moment. Sam travels with them to Camelot and finds himself in King Arthur's court. Working as a blacksmith and studying the druidic arts under Merlin's tutelage, Sam learns he must complete an unknown task before a portal can open to his own place and time.

Merlin's Apprentice is created by B. K. Kerley, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

Merlin's Apprentice

Agravain’s entrance brought him considerable embarrassment. Without preamble, he launched into lies of how he was set upon by a contingent of twenty knights sworn to Mordred’s service. He had not even begun to warm up to his story when his eyes fell upon Sir Robert, Margot, and me. Stopping mid-sentence, his jaw dropped.


I almost felt a smidgen of pity for him — almost. Had he not threatened Margott, I may have been a little more sympathetic, but in reality, I think the bastard got his just desserts. Knowing the truth of his misadventure had already been told, he departed in shame but not without first casting an angry look our way.


Chapter 6