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

We spent most of the day riding in silence except for the minimal pleasantries when we broke for lunch. Margot seemed put out that Nimue invited herself to our little expedition. I think she was looking forward to a journey involving just the two of us. Personally, and was glad to have an actual sorceress accompany us. Of course, this wasn’t a picnic or a lover’s holiday, but I knew better than to put it that way to my girlfriend.


We set up camp at nightfall near the caves, but not so close to alert Morgan. The spot we chose was in the trees to avoid detection from the air should the enchantress shift into her griffin form and patrol the area. Abstaining from building a campfire, we bedded down for the night.


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