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

“You betrayed us,” I accused the captain. “What an asshole.”


“It was not personal, Lord Baron,” the captain stammered. “But business is business.”


Lancelot grabbed the asshole captain by the collar and tossed him overboard. “Betray the fishes. You will fare better.”


We turned our backs on the treacherous captain’s pleas and his declaration of an inability to swim.


“Braden,” I yelled down to the hold. “We’re about to have unwelcome company.”


“We’re coming,” the Pict replied.


I began barking orders like a sea captain as Braden’s men ascended to the weather deck and formed a shield wall along the starboard rail. “Robert, cut the bowline. Percival, get the stern. Shove us off.” To the crew, I said. “Those who are treacherous bastards had better jump overboard if you don’t want to feel our steel. The rest of you hearty souls will be paid well. Now get busy and get this ship underway.”


Chapter 27