Aunt Jeanette is the aunt of Patty, and the sister of Stephen. She lives near Caliente, Nevada, where she owns a 160-acre ranch and cows. She agrees to take on Patty for the summer, during which time, she oversees a romance between Patty and Ethan, and becomes a parental figure and role model to Patty. Aunt Jeanette is a widow, whose husband has died of cancer years before.
Aunt Jeanette, like Patty, also had a romance destroyed by her father and Stephen when she was younger. The romance was with Ethan's widowed father, Kevin. At Patty's insistence, and with Ethan's blessing, Kevin and Aunt Jeanette begin their romance all over again.
