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The Skeleton Lord's Key, a novel by Robert E. Vardeman writing as Daniel Moran.

The second part of the The Keys to Paradise series.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
Bandanarra, a largely uncharted desert, domain of the Skeleton Lord and home to the mighty Harifim. The Skeleton Lord rules the desert and thirsts only for blood and power. The Harifim, a desert people who worship a gold key . . . the key to Paradise . . . a key they will die to protect. The Skeleton Lord has the key, the Harifim kill any who seek its whereabouts and Giles Grimsmate is determined to possess it.

Giles, Petia and Keja have three of the keys to open the legendary Gate of Paradise. But to find the fourth key they must cross an unnavigable desert infested with malacious djinn, mythical beasts and unreasonable Harifim. And then they must face the awe-some, fleshless horror that protects THE SKELETON LORD’S KEY