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

 “Duck,” I yelled, but Margot and Merlin had beat me to it. I joined them below the cover of the window ledge a split second before fire and heat rolled over our heads. Once it passed, I looked out the window to see the dragon’s belly as it pulled up in a vertical climb. I smelled burnt hair. My fiancé had a few shriveled strands, but the druid’s outer layers looked like chow mien. I doubted I had fared much better. “I have to get to a ballista.”


“I replaced the weapon atop my tower,” the wizard said. “Go there. I will distract her.”


I could only guess what the diversion would be. I ran with Margot keeping pace at my side. We burst out into the courtyard and dove back behind the shelter of the stone building. 


“Baron Sam,” a weak but familiar voice said from behind me. I turned. Pale and tired, Arthur supported his weight on Bedivere, a bandage wrapped around his head. “I see you reclaimed Excalibur.”


Chapter 49