Maggie's father has tried to convince her to find a "real" career rather than becoming an actress. This leaves Maggie wanting to find a way to prove herself to her father and to show her father that they are more alike than he realizes, but, alas, the life of an Interpol agent is very busy -- and dangerous -- and they don't get much "alone time" during Mosaic.
Part of the reason that Maggie's father is so busy stems from a case that he's on; it seems that someone is breaking into museums and tampering with displays -- and now a security guard has been killed who is, apparently, not human. Unbeknown to the police, secret hidden items have been stolen at the museum displays, artifacts with mystical and magical powers imbued by an ancient race of Chameleon-like humanoids that splintered from humans genetically somewhere back in history. A rogue group of these beings is making a play to rule earth and both Interpol and Maggie Nelson are trying to stop them.
Maggie Nelson? Yes, once a typical teenager, Maggie has a life-changing event and gains powers which she puts to use tracking down the bad guy and doing her part to save the world; during a freak electrical storm, one of these above-mentioned artifacts is charged and activated by the lightning while Maggie is researching Chameleons with her father's computer and she is bathed in an electrical field emanating from the artifact. The next thing you know, she has the same chameleon-like powers that the alien race possesses. Additionally, she can "see" the genetic imprint of lifeforms and can turn herself (and others) invisible.
Mosaic has a nice storyline and likable characters. Maggie Nelson seems like a character that teenage girls of today can identify with and the story covers the origin of Maggie Nelson as Mosaic and sets up characters and tensions between them that will serve as a basis for additional Mosaic stories, while presenting a full stand-alone story at the same time. All I can say is great job and, "Excelsior!"
