Courage of Falcons (The Secret Texts, Book 3)

In the conclusion of this series, the Final Battle between the Falcons, fugitive wizards committed to peace, and the Dragons, the immortal necromancers wielding black magic, ensues. Aided by the long-banished Scarred, the unstoppable army is bent on conquest. Kait Galweigh and Ry Sabir try to destroy the Scarred's leader, sorcerer Luercas, before he destroys Iberia forever.

Holly Lisle has been doing the pro novelist gig since 1992.  Prior to that, she was an on-again, off-again missionaries' kid, high-school entrepreneur, and once past graduation, a newspaper ad rep, a sign-painter/commercial artist, the "window girl" at a McDonald's, a guitar teacher for absolute beginners, a singer at local restaurants, and because all of those together paid starvation wages, she went to nursing school the next year, and two years later was an RN.

For ten years.  

She paid off her student loan the same year she got her first three-book contract, and...well...she's been writing for her supper ever since.

She is active online, providing courses teaching what she has discovered about writing fiction as well as maintaining her own weblog and website, HollyLisle.com. And with more than a million books in print via commercial publishers, she has now moved to publishing herself.