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I am happy to read romances with quite a lot of violence. But then, I read Star Trek and Batman slash; I'm used to my romances taking place with a background of explosions and knife-fights.
There's a solid genre of adventure-romance novels where Hero and Heroine bond while trying to evade some level of danger, which often involves violence. Sometimes, the Hero is sent to protect the Heroine; sometimes, he was assigned to kill her and either fails or decides not to when he sorts out that the reason for the assignment had problems. Sometimes the two of them just wind up randomly stuck together in a dangerous situation and fall in love while helping each other survive.
There is no level of violence that's "too much," any more than there's a level of erotica that's "too much;" it depends on where your writing talents lie and which audience you want as a customer base. There are solid marketing and fanbase opportunities for any level of violence, from "maybe someone gets slapped in the face" to "graphic description of a war zone."
Romance readers (and romance *buyers*) are not a uniform crowd of women who want fluff-and-roses with no hint of a world outside the two main characters.
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