About Misery Plaza
2025 Readers’ Choice Book Award Winner
2025 Indie Author Project Award Winner
2025 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Award Winner
Joseph Griffin-the ruthless outlaw whose bloodstained past has caught up with him at last-thought he could escape. But fate has other plans. Now going by the name William Potter, he’s forced to flee with his children to the isolated and strange village of Missouri Plaza. A place where every neighbor harbors secrets, and the line between friend and foe is blurred. Here, among thieves, liars, and killers, the danger isn’t just from the law-it’s something far darker.
When a long-buried treasure is unearthed, Potter sees it as his last chance to vanish for good. But riches come at a steep price. What begins as a simple hope for freedom soon spirals into an unimaginable nightmare. As the shadows of Missouri Plaza close in, Potter must face the ghosts of his past while fighting to protect his family from a bounty hunter with a deadly obsession, the relentless pursuit of the U.S. Cavalry-and something ancient, vengeful, and far more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Time is running out, and escape may be impossible. In this village, nothing stays buried for long.
If you enjoyed Andy Davidson’s In the Valley of the Sun and R.S. Belcher’s Golgotha series, you’ll love this page turning tale of survival and redemption.
From the award-winning author of The Street Between the Pines.
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Author Bio:
J.J. Alo is a versatile force in the entertainment industry, known for his spellbinding work as a commercial actor, writer, and the acclaimed author behind the Southern New England Horror Anthology series.
With a macabre fascination, J.J. has spent years weaving award-winning horror screenplays and novels. His anthology series, teeming with deeply etched, complex characters and mesmerizing antiheroes, has become a sinister staple in horror literature, which ensnares readers and refuses to let go.
J.J. Alo’s Southern New England Horror Anthology series has received widespread critical acclaim from multiple editorial publications. His latest novel, Misery Plaza, has recently won the 2025 Readers’ Choice Book Award for Best Horror as well as the Indie Author Project Book Award for Sci-fi. His debut, The Street Between the Pines, has achieved the 2024 President’s Book Award from the Florida Authors & Publishers Association, the IndieReader Book Award for Horror, and was a FINALIST in both the Chanticleer International Book Awards and the Killer Nashville Claymore Award Competition. J.J. Alo’s screenplays have garnered numerous accolades in the Best Horror/Thriller categories at prestigious competitions, including the Los Angeles Film and Script Festival, Fright Night Film Fest, and Zed Fest Film Festival & Screenplay Competition.
J.J. lives and works out of his Connecticut Shoreline home with six insane cats and spends his time visiting coffee shops, movie theaters, and concert venues. He is a lifelong pop culture nerd, ComicCon & cosplay fanatic, avid gym enthusiast, and subpar snowboarder. (he tries!) And he'll never say no to a perfectly shaken dirty martini. Never.