The Paige books were pretty terrible, yeah, but the Elena books (especially post-Bitten, since Bitten does deal a lot with Clay and her) aren't romantic in the least.

I guess Armstrong is about half and half. Book one of a narrator involves some kind of relationship set-up, then the later ones rarely do. I wouldn't call it primarily romance, especially not ala Nora Roberts' Three Sisters paranormal romance stuff.

And, for the longest time I refused to read the Charlaine Harris just because of the cover.