What do you get when you combine Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Back to the Future, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation?You get Marie Gibbons, who's been given the opportunity to influence her past, as her present self, gathering evidence that she hopes will right the wrongs that she, her mother, and her brother endured."In this fictionalized autobiography of the author's life, Alive will have you cheering for Marie as she chases the justice that she was robbed of as a child. Given the opportunity to relive some of her past memories, as well as visit her mother's life prior to her own birth, Marie is torn by wanting to change every bad moment in an effort to give her family just a little happiness, or to keep the lessons she learned through some of those hard times.