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 area before us was a vast square of brown dirt with depressions where stone footings and piling may have been as if everything of the castle had been removed.


“Witchery is afoot,” Bedivere said.


Brayden grunted. “No wagon tracks.”


“If every stone of the keep were hauled away, where are the wagon tracks?”


A dog barked, and we all turned our attention to the empty area, but no dog could be seen. What would Merlin do, I thought. I had no reason to doubt Robert. I believed him if he was sure that the castle had been here. I’m also sure it was still here under an illusion cast by another magic-user. However, it could be a trap, so I was hesitant to charge in and get zapped, impaled, pierced with arrows, or who-knows-what.


Chapter 25