Why do you want a road bike? For racing or training, or transportation (or other)? Once you have determined whether you need gears or not, then decide which bike to get.

We can't really help much without a given price range. For near that amount of money you could get something off BikesDirect with gears.
Then there is always the used route. If you are patient a very nice old steel road bike could come your way.

I.e. we need more info.