Kell's Legend, by Andy Remic is this week's B&N Free Fridays book, courtesy of Osprey Publishing, normally a British military hobbyist manual publisher (nifty little factual info books to help your gameplaying Viking warriors and Napoleonic dragoons and such).
They've apparently decided to expand into publishing fiction, as this is the first book of The Clockwork Vampire Chronicles, offered free to promote the upcoming next.
Synopsis
Ferocious fantasy from a real-life hardman come to claim the post-Gemmell world.
THEY CAME FROM THE NORTH AND THE CITY FELL.
It is a time for warriors, a time for heroes. Kell's axe howls out for blood. The land of Falanor has been invaded by an albino army, the Army of Iron. A small group set off to warn the king: Kell, a magnificent and brutal hero; his granddaughter, Nienna and her friend, Katrina; and Saark, the ex-Sword Champion of King Leanoric, disgraced after his affair with the Queen.
Fighting their way south, betrayal follows battle, battle follows deviation, and they are attacked from all quarters by deadly warriors, monstrous harvesters who drain blood from their victims to feed their masters. As Falanor comes under heavy attack and invasion, only then does Nienna begin to learn the truth about grandfather Kell — that he is anything but a hero. Ferocious fantasy from a real-life hardman come to claim the post-Gemmell world.
I like what they've done at the bottom of the synopsis, which is to state this should be filed under:
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Epic Fantasy [ A City Besieged | A Dangerous Hero | Bloodsucking Hordes | Sweeping Battles]
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WARNING: According to a comment at the B&N forums, this book may have a fairly high level of violence and gore. Viewer discretion is advised.