By that I don't mean some aliens that look like humans and have "special" powers/eye colour. Or some teenager-orientated love-fest, or an erotic thing. Just a book with aliens, a good plot, and some alien-human romance.
Catherine Asaro is a science fiction writer that uses romance in her plots.
ote that the stories were published in non-chronological sequence, from the perspective of the characters.
"Light and Shadow" (novelette appearing in Analog, ed. Stanley Schmidt) (1994)
Primary Inversion (1995)
Catch the Lightning (1996)
The Last Hawk (1997)
The Radiant Seas (1999)
"Aurora in Four Voices" (novella appearing in Analog, ed. Stanley Schmidt) (1998)
Ascendant Sun (2000)
"A Roll of the Dice" (novella appearing in Analog, ed. Stanley Schmidt) (2000)
The Quantum Rose (2000) (also serialized in Analog, ed. Stanley Schmidt) (1999)
"Ave de Paso" (short story appearing in the following anthologies; Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, ed. Al Sarrantonio, (2001); Fantasy: the Best of 2001, ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber, (2002); Aurora in Four Voices, ed. Steven Silver (2011))
Spherical Harmonic (2001)
The Moon's Shadow (2003)
Skyfall (2003)
"Stained Glass Heart" (novella appearing in anthology Irresistible Forces, ed. Catherine Asaro) (2004)
"Walk in Silence" (novella appearing in Analog, ed. Stanley Schmidt) (2004)
Schism (2004)
"The Edges of Never-Haven" (short story appearing in anthology Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio) (2004)
"The City of Cries" (novella appearing in Down These Dark Spaceways, ed. Mike Resnick) (2005)
"The Shadowed Heart" (novelette appearing in anthology The Journey Home, ed. Mary Kirk (2005), and Best New Paranormal Romance, ed. Paula Guran, (2006))
The Final Key (2005)
"Echoes of Pride" (short story appearing in anthology Space Cadets, ed. Mike Resnick) (2006)
"The Ruby Dice" (novella appearing in Jim Baen's Universe, ed. Eric Flint) (2006)
The Ruby Dice (2008)
"Primary Inversion", rewritten version available online in Baen Free Library (2008–2012)
Diamond Star (2009)
Carnelians (2011)
Aurora in Four Voices (anthology, ed. Steven Silver) (2011). Includes Aurora in Four Voices, Ave de Paso, The Spacetime Pool, Light and Shadow, The City of Cries, A Poetry of Angles and Dreams (essay on how Asaro uses math in her fiction), Introduction by Kate Dolan, and Afterward by Aly Parsons.
The City of Cries, eBook, (2012)
"The Spacetime Pool," eBook (2012). Includes "The Spacetime Pool," "Light and Shadow," and the math essay "A Poetry of Angles and Dreams"
"The Pyre of New Day" (novelette appearing in anthology The Mammoth Book of SF Wars, ed. Ian Watson and Ian Whates) (2012)
what a coincidence! Im writing one now! haha check back with me in two years..... (although it doesn't have much romance, just here and there....so i wouldn't label it as sci-fi romance, just sci-fi)