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The Flame Key, a novel by Robert E. Vardeman writing as Daniel Moran.

The first part of the The Keys to Paradise series.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
The Trans War is over and Giles Grimsmate has lost everything. In his grief he wanders, aimlessly searching for a reason to go on. His search ends and begins in Klepht . . . with a golden key; the key to the legendary Gates of Paradise and the promise of total fulfillment.

There is another key and Giles must join forces with the thief Keja and Petia, a beautiful Trans cat-woman to search for the mythical Gates. With the keys the Gates are simple to find, but five keys are needed to gain the treasure beyond.

Giles and his questionable company set off on a quest to find the third key . . . somewhere on the southern continent a mad sorceress plots to conquer the world and plunge it into flaming madness . . . there they must seek THE FLAME KEY