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 water below decks had risen to chest level. The deck lurched to starboard at a dangerous angle — I feared capsizing. Then it tilted the other direction and then back again. It took me a moment to realize that we were beached. The sound of the surf was crashing hard against the ship and shore.


“Everyone grab a horse and lead it topside,” I shouted.


The horse ramp was still down, but the hatch above had been battened down for the storm. “Percival, come with me.” The knight didn’t hesitate. We ran up to the weather deck and pulled off the tarp and grating. The others were leading the horses from below a moment later.


The horses did not like the situation any more than we did. Being intelligent beasts, they nearly scooted down the sloping deck, leaped off into the surf, and splashed their way onto the beach.


Chapter 24