Surrogates and Lovers

Janet Walsh let out a great sigh of relief when she finally reached the Mojave Desert in California and felt that her entire body was starting to thaw. She had been on the road from Chicago for a week now, driving her car through constant snow storms. She looked around her at the ground heat generated by sun and rising into the air, and all she could think of was how great it was to be hot in January.
Janice had been invited by her childhood friend to join her in Los Angeles in order to uplift her spirits after her deivorce from a husband who, together with three drunken friends, had brutally raped her.
She loved her new life in the new environment and the freedom it presented her especially since she was a highly sought after computer consultant and could pick and choose who to work for.
Then, a few months after arrival, she met and befriended a woman with whom, to her great surprise, she easily falls in love with and the two quickly move in together.