He Defied A King To Win Her Kisses
From the back:
The sadistic spymaster, St. Roget, handed Diane the bull-whip. In the torture chamber, strung to a post, was the strong, naked body of Josh Peattie, the American. “Which do you love?” sneered St. Roget. “This raw colonial or France?”
Diane stood like a statue. “What do you want me to do?” she asked. “Open his back with this lash,” said St. Roget. “Prove your loyalty once and for all!” Diane had to decide the life of this man she loved, or the freedom of France? She took the whip. “I love you,” her eyes told Josh Peattie. Then the whip crackled toward his flesh!
via my own collection