Fervour& Fury

Münster 1534 - 1535

When plague devastates Haarlem, ten-year-old Diera prays to live, and something answers. Whether it is God, a saint or something else,  a voice in the dark and a velvet touch in the night saves her life, though the cost is unclear.

Years later, cloistered in an Amsterdam convent and haunted by doubt, Diera’s fragile devotion is upended when Jan Matthias, a fiery prophet of the coming apocalypse, notices her through her habit. He sees in her a vessel for revelation but she sees in him the echo of that godly voice that once saved her. Abandoning her vows, she follows him into the fever dream of the Münster Rebellion—in a city meant to be Zion, the New Jerusalem that will endure the end of times.

But this city of God is still ruled by men. Crowned queen of a crumbling kingdom, Diera is both prisoner and accomplice, lover and betrayer, prophet and heretic. When the fires burn out and the cannons fall quiet, only one thing remains to be decided. Was Diera ever chosen by God… or damned from the start.

Fervour is a psychologically rich reimagining of a notorious figure from the radical Reformation, exploring faith, fear, and the thin line between salvation and seduction.