What is the setting in the story, The Innkeeper’s Song?

The events of the novel take place primarily in and around an inn that is outside an unremarkable town. The inn seems to be a magnet for odd people, attracting, for instance, a mysterious company of women: a dead woman, a sailor woman with a wicked rapier, and a solemn, retiring woman who is not a woman. They are followed by an eighteen-year-old boy who is determined to retrieve his dead fiancee, a halfdead old wizard, and an annoying serving boy who does not know who he is. Amid this group is the cranky, officious, graceful innkeeper who wishes that folks would stop throwing his life out of kilter.