Johnathan "John" Alden is the male lead and one of the main protagonists of the WGN America thriller TV Series, Salem. He is the son of John Alden senior and Sarah Alden, former lover of Mary Sibley and a hardened war hero. He returns home to his native Salem, Massachusetts after fighting in the nine years war to find his home town amidst a witch panic but has returned with the sole purpose of being reunited with his former lover and love of his life Mary only to discover that she is now married to George Sibley, the very man that had sent him off to die.