Aiden had everything - his dream career, a comfortable life and a fiancee he loved. But when she is murdered during a business trip to Mars, his perfect world shatters.An investigation and a trial soon follow, and the space smuggler, Darren Howe, is quickly convicted. However, when no motive is supplied and Howe is given a life sentence instead of the death penalty, things don't add up. No matter how hard Aiden tries, the authorities refuse to explain their decision, leaving him with no choice but to seek the answers elsewhere.Two years later, Aiden secures a job as the warden at Jupiter's Horizons Space Prison. The plan is simple - find out the truth and kill Howe. But things get complicated when he approaches the charismatic man who awakens in him urges he hasn't felt in years.The truths Aiden uncovers as he fights the attraction between them will reveal secrets he might not be ready for and make him question everything he knows about the life he's lived so far.Chasing Howe is an enemies-to-lovers MM sci-fi slow burn romance mystery about an ex-architect who will stop at nothing until he avenges the death of his fiancee and the prisoner who will turn his world upside-down. It serves as an easy introduction to the low sci-fi genre and features hidden identities, a generous dose of mystery, high stakes, slow burn, pining, obsession and an intriguing plot. It is Book 1 in the Forging the Stars duet.