When a game of hide-and-seek opens the door to a magically hidden house, Karia has to grow up quickly. She's just turned fifteen. Her people say that makes her a woman, but she still feels like a kid. This confusing, difficult time gets worse - far worse - as truths spill out of the magical house. Magic, the force that has ravaged her world, the power she's grown up despising, would consume and control her. She will not allow that. She will fight back. She will end magic. Now, if she only knew how ... The House in the Old Wood is the first of five books that tell the story of The Day Magic Died.