When a school bus breaks down in a storm, a group of children has little choice but to take refuge in an abandoned house. The building seems empty at first, but its dark rooms and hidden corners turn an ordinary game of hide-and-seek into something far more dangerous. As the storm traps them inside, the children discover that disappearing from sight may not be as simple as counting to ten, and that some places hold onto their secrets long after the lights go out. John Peel's *Hide-and-Seek* is a tense juvenile mystery-horror story that uses a familiar childhood game to build suspense around fear, trust, and the unknown. It is part of the *Foul Play* series and is suited to readers who enjoy eerie premises, isolated settings, and stories where ordinary situations quickly become unsettling.