3.75 stars 
 This isn't going on my TD's best work shelf, but it's TD so even when she isn't at her best she still produces a solid enjoyable read. 
 Lord Dashwood Missed Out had such an original premise and one of my favourite plot lines - childhood friends turned romance. Nora, spurned by her neighbor Dashwood, writes an angry pamplet after a night with too much sherry and becomes a famous author. On the way to Spindle Cove for a speaking engagement she gets stuck with the man himself in a snowstorm and Dashwood is just a little tiny bit angry about the pamplet. She has one night to prove he truly did missed out. 
 The good: 
 TD writes the feels. Without spoiling the story when Dashwood is tender he is wonderful. The story when we are with Nora and George (Dashwood) moves along well. 
 The bad: 
 I have read all of the Spindle Cove series, so I am familiar with the characters, but I thought the cut back scenes to the other characters were not necessary. Some times fun some times it seems to be just unnecessary background fluff. For a short story it really took up too many pages. 
 You don't really realize this out until the end so this may be a bit of a spoiler but Dashwood is a coward and a little bit of an a**. Here's why: (view spoiler)[He realizes he was in love with Nora even during his travels and comes back to win her, but he wants her to say she loved him first? When he was the one who treated her so horribly before he left? (hide spoiler)] 
 And like everyone said a little longer HEA ending or epilogue would have been nice. But I have noticed that with all her nouvellas I always miss having a longer ending.