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 war horns blared, nearly drowned out by the battle cries of thousands and mixed with the thundering hooves of our destriers, but it was nothing compared to the crash of our impact into the shield wall. A chorus of screams joined the clash and clamor as we broke through, thankful that the enemy did not have time to array their pikemen, or we would have suffered more casualties.


This was not the random unorganized charge Lancelot preferred and thought he led. Instead, Arthur had prearranged an attack strategy and asked us, Lancelot’s closest friends, not to talk about the plan around him or his mate. Bedivere was a sensible knight and knew discretion where Lancelot knew none. However, Arthur feared that Bedivere might inadvertently leak the plan to his closest confidant with the two knights being so close.


Chapter 42