Daphne, a devoted priestess of Artemis, falls in love at first sight with Apollo, the god of the sun. However, her love brings only pain and rejection. When a young god’s arrows strike them, one is filled with endless love and the other with unending hatred. Daphne forgets how to love, while Apollo is consumed by it. Their fates intertwine as both salvation and destruction. The story follows Daphne’s struggle to escape her tragic transformation into a tree and Apollo’s descent into regret and despair over a love that can never be returned. For Daphne is the first story in the For the Goddesses series, followed by For Psyche and For Persephone.