The Wisteria vine is beautiful and sweet...but it slowly wraps itself around the sturdy pine, slowly squeezing the life from it until the once strong pine is standing brown and frail, slowly dying and it doesn't seem to care because the Wisteria is so beautiful and innocent looking that it is inconceivable that it could be so deadly. Some people are a lot like the Wisteria, slowly establishing a strangle hold on another, slowly sapping away hope and life until there seems there is no way for the other person to go on. Wisteria is the story of such a relationship and the trials that must be endured in order to escape from it.

Sallie Smith Tribou is a fourth generation local from . She is the mother of seven children and the grandmother of eight grandchildren. Ms. Tribou attended the 's , has a certificate in Non-Profit Management from , a certificate in Family Services from and received her Bachelor of Social Work degree from the at with her emphasis in Child Protective Services. Ms Tribou work for sever years wit the Federal Head Start Program in New Hanover County and with the National Fatherhood Initiative Program.

This is Ms. Tribou's fifth book. Her other books include, Chinaberry Trees Forever, Matters of the Heart, Castles and Carousels, and Where the Road Leads. She also has to her credit her children's stores, The Adventures of Mary Susan, and several published poems.