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

“Awe, you’ve got to be shitting me,” I said softly.


“Oh, no, Baron Sam, I would never shite on you,” Percival replied.


“No, that’s not what I meant. It’s a saying, like, surely you jest. What I mean is, we really don’t need this right now. So how are we going to get in?”


“You are the baron,” Robert said. “You should have the answers.”


I cast him a perturbed look, and then Lancelot said, “It is simple. First, I shall sound the challenge with my war horn, and then we attack with a full-frontal assault.”


“You would announce our presence to thirty wide-awake warriors?” I was incredulous and then remembered who I was talking to. “Besides, there might be more standing watch in pickets.” I was relieved to see Bedivere speaking calming words into Lancelot’s ear.


“We could use strike and run tactics,” Braden suggested.


Chapter 29