Aspen Meadows, Colorado

The vast majority of the action in the novel takes place in the small town of Aspen Meadows, Colorado, where Goldy Schulz lives and operates Goldilocks’ Catering. Perched at 8,000 feet above sea level, Aspen Meadows is a tightly knit, affluent community located in the mountains 40 miles west of Denver and less than an hour’s drive from Boulder. All of the novel’s major characters and most of the minor characters live in Aspen Meadows. Much of the novel takes place in Goldy Schulz’s home, which she shares with her husband Tom, her son Arch, and her assistant Julian Teller. Significant scenes take place in Goldy’s kitchen while she and Julian (often with Marla helping) are prepping food for the events they cater during the course of the story; the basement, where Goldy keeps the notes she took at the Amour Anonymous meetings she...