The Housemaid

True first: Bookouture (UK), 26 April 2022 — a digital/print-to-order paperback original, no hardcover. Grand Central Publishing (New York), 23 August 2022, is the first American print issue and the first from a conventional trade house; it is collected as the first US trade paperback but does not precede Bookouture. No original-language question arises — the novel was written in English by an American author but placed first with a UK digital imprint, which is why the UK issue holds priority. Both should be named.