Who is a friend? A First, Relative in every difficulty and joy... Let us see... New novel explores the complexity of teenage interactions to study friendship and temptation Teenagers Cary, James and Ashley meet in school and become friends, but each of them soon discovers that the others want different things. For Cary and James, the divide is great: though Cary is just looking for a good friend, James is looking for something more, a romantic relationship with a girlfriend. As each of the three travel toward their own wants, the conflicts and temptations cross the gamut of teenage experience: friendship, love, ambition and even corruption. "Some people are your friends and some are only your acquaintances," Gogna writes. "Moreover, there is a real difference in the two, best to know in which category they fall into."