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

With an order from the king, wranglers brought our horses to the front, and we mounted. Our infantry marched forward in eighty-man phalanxes of centuria. The Highlander Picts, Scots from the Borderlands, and the horsemen from Northumbria harried the enemy flanks while archers from both sides loosed volleys of deadly shafts. Merlin’s artillery returned barrages of wizard fire. The explosions added crescendos to the music of battle.


Thousands of Arthur’s mounted knights clashed against Mordred’s minions and soon found themselves in a melee. However, those unhorsed souls who survived their fall got to their feet and fought valiantly.


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