Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Time Burned | 2014 | David Estes | N/A |
| 2 | The Rescue of Officer Moreland Lee | 2021 | David Estes | Buy |
David Estes has published two shorter standalone works outside his series and novel output. Time Burned (2014) is a science fiction short story published during his most active YA period, and it shares the speculative preoccupations of his work from that era without being tied to any specific series world.
The Rescue of Officer Moreland Lee (2021) is a novella with a thriller premise — a police rescue story with higher stakes than the title might suggest. It was published alongside The Rescue of Nadia Marie, a companion novella in the standalone novels category, suggesting Estes was experimenting with shorter crime and thriller formats during that period.
Neither work is essential reading for fans of Estes’s fantasy or sci-fi series, but they give a sense of how he writes at shorter length and outside his primary genres. The Rescue of Officer Moreland Lee is available on Amazon; Time Burned is currently out of print.