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

The approaching riders put a damper on the celebration but only for a moment.


Arthur held both hands aloft and said, “It is nothing with which to be alarmed. It is my friend, Baron Guy D’airelle, whom I am expecting. Tonight, we will feast.”


Margot tensed, and I looked at wide eyes staring at me from her pale face. Then, “Dear God,” she said and ran off like a deer before the hounds.


I recalled Margot telling me that after several failed attempts to marry her off, he attempted to put her in a convent. I wondered if that was why he was here.


Chapter 14