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

Margo’s eyes widened with astonishment, and then she beamed with joy. “Yes,” she stammered, pulling me to my feet. “Yes, yes, yes!”


Penelope gasped, but my attention was on Margo, who wasted no time kissing me.


Abruptly, Margo turned on the girl. “Not a word of this to anyone. Do you hear? Not until it has been properly announced.”


Yeah, right, I thought. Having experienced scuttlebutt aboard a ship, I didn’t believe the secret would last longer than an hour. Penelope fidgeted. I had no doubt that as soon as her chaperone duty finished, the girl would bolt for the first person she could find to leak the news.


Margo faced me, glowing with happiness. “You must speak with my father.” Then, pulling back, she ran her eyes over me and frowned. “This will not do. You look like a blacksmith.”


Chapter 15