Blightfall

With the war against the alien Krell finally won, ace pilot Arturo Mendez expects his next assignment — escorting diplomats to reconnect with a lost human settlement — to be routine. Instead his flight finds the planet Blightfall a hostile, forest-swallowed ruin, the "settlement" nothing like expected, and the mission spiraling into a fight for survival and buried secrets.

Blightfall opens Riftwake, a new series set in the Skyward Saga's Cytoverse.