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

Once fully formed, the griffin stretched, swiped at the air with its lion’s claws, and screamed a shrieking challenge from its eagle head.


I was already making tracks. Behind me, Merlin was having a hard time keeping up, so I slowed and took his arm. “Come on!”


The cave was too narrow for the griffin’s wingspan, but it gained on us as quickly any lion. I was sure that razor-sharp beak would snap off our heads any second when suddenly we were outside next to the horses. The transition was so quick and disorienting that we fell to the grass. I mounted, but Merlin cast a spell towards the cave’s mouth. We could hear the beast coming from within, but before it could exit, the ceiling caved in, blocking the mouth of the cave. The griffin shrieked its wrath and scratched at the rubble within, but it was muffled through the wall of rock.


Chapter 19