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

“Are you out of your, uh, how you say?” Margot fumed. “Freaking? Yes. Are you out of your freaking mind?”


We were in the armory. I had just pulled on a chain mail shirt loaned to me by Sir Lancelot. Sir Robert was helping me with some hard-boiled leather shoulder pads, greaves, and breastplate. I couldn’t afford plate armor, but I had one of my Damascus-style swords, which was of a higher quality than that belonging to Sir Agravain.


“Margot,” I replied. “I can’t back down. It’s only a matter of time before Agravain rapes you and murders me.”


“Sir Sam is right,” Sir Robert agreed. “Both yours and his honor are at stake.”


Margot gave Sir Robert the evil eye and then turned her attention on me. “But he will kill you.”


Chapter 13