Half Sword

Tapestry Codices: Book 1

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Genres

Magic, Fantasy Adventure, Sword & Sorcery, Historical, Medieval, and Novels

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Sex, Violence, and Death

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Tapestry Codices — Book 1

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Jan 31, 2026

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380 pages

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Half Sword

Tapestry Codices: Book 1

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Medieval adventure with sorcerers, conjuration and talismanic magic.

Simon the fool, Simon the halfwit, Simon the lost is pursued across medieval Europe by a sinister league of conjurers, the Apostles of Light. Having erased his past, they will stop at nothing to steal his future. When he seeks shelter among the Knights of Palermo, a dubious band of wandering rogues, Simon attracts a mysterious young woman whose fate is somehow interwoven with his own.

Caught in a struggle for power between the shadowy Apostles, his adopted Knights, and, a secretive cabal of powerful women, Simon explores his own dark past to find a road to survival. With only a broken sword and his own shattered memories, Simon must thread this maze of warring factions to discover who he was and why he is inexorably drawn to the haunted ruins of twelfth century Rome.

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Genres

Magic, Fantasy Adventure, Sword & Sorcery, Historical, Medieval, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Sex, Violence, and Death

Type of Ending

Series

Tapestry Codices — Book 1

Author Prefers A Review On

Amazon

Reader Spots Remaining

200

Number of days to read

Publication Date

Jan 31, 2026

Page Length

380 pages

Available Formats

ePub

Author

Christopher Matson writes historical fantasy under his full name, and action adventure as C.B. Matson. He has survived former incarnations that include mining geologist, commercial fisherman, civil engineer, mess-hall cook, surveyor, and international port consultant. He lived much of his life in Colorado, California and Virginia, but he has also spent considerable time in Moscow, Bogota, Nagasaki and Dakar. When he is not writing, he enjoys walking, tinkering, and "… simply messing about in boats." C.B. Matson and his wife live on the water in Hampton Roads, Virginia.