Anna Cavallaro

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**Anna Bianchi** (née **Cavallaro**) (born September 30th, 2015) is main character in the Sins of the Fathers and a minor character in the Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles, the Camorra Chronicles and in the Mafia Standalone *Fragile Longing*. She is the eldest child of Dante and Valentina Cavallaro and the older sister of Leonas and Beatrice. She is also the wife of Santino Bianchi.

## Appearance and Character

Anna has the brown wavy hair and the thick lips of her mother Valentina and the blue eyes of her father Dante.

## Personality

Anna seems to be a well-behaved, kind young lady to the public, but actually, she has a strong character and the ability to get what she wants from everyone.

She has bad habits of smoking and drinking, like her brother Leonas Cavallaro.

Anna is interested in art- she likes drawing. Her biggest dream is to become a fashion designer. She likes creating her own clothes.

Anna used to play the piano with her father as a child. She likes The Beatles. That is why Dante concludes she is an old soul in a young body.

She and Luisa Fabbri played tennis at school.

## Born in Blood

### Bound by Duty

Anna is born prematurely via C-section because of complications with Val's pregnancy. Anna was 16.7 inches and 3.83 pounds when she was born and was said to be well developed for a preemie. Dante and Valentina adore Anna. Everyone is happy about her birth except her paternal grandfather Fiore Cavallaro.

### Bound by the Past

BBTP shows events from Anna's childhood from Dante and Valentina's POVs. Aria Vitiello has become Anna's godmother. She is best friends with her paternal cousin Sofia and Bibiana's daughter Luisa. Anna deeply loves her siblings. However, at a later age, she brawls with Leonas on regular basis. She likes to babysit Beatrice and dress her in plaid. Anna is deeply shaken during Serafina's kidnapping.

## Camorra Chronicles

### Twisted Pride

Based on her cousin Serafina Mione. Anna is a minor character in TP. Her emotions when her cousin is kidnaped are expressed in BBTP.

## Fragile Longing

She has a good relationship with her brother Leonas who she often blackmails when she wants something. They quarrel with each other a lot. It is hinted that Anna smokes. She is best friends with Luisa and Sofia. Anna gives Sofia several pieces of advice for her cousin's relationship with Danilo. Anna is shown to be interested in her bodyguard Santino Bianchi. She often teases him and it's hinted they share a common secret.

## Sins of the Fathers

### By Virtue I Fall

Anna is promised in marriage to Clifford Clark shortly before her thirteenth birthday for a tactical reason: creating an alliance between the Outfit and the political elite of Chicago. Santino Bianchi becomes Anna's bodyguard at her parents' demand. Anna enjoys pissing off Santino on a regular basis. He even becomes her inspiration for drawing, portraying him in different plots such as King Louis XIV and a cowboy. When Clifford finds out about the engagement, he tells Anna that she has the freedom to be with whomever she wants before their wedding. That gives her a further incentive to chase Santino. At a Christmas party, she sees her bodyguard banging Mrs. Alfera (a Captain's wife). She uses this information to blackmail Santino to take her and her cousin Sofia Mancini to a party for Danilo's birthday.

Anna sends off an application for a fashion school in Paris in secret. When her letter of acceptance arrives, Anna goes to great lengths to convince her parents to allow her to go abroad. She suggests that Santino can accompany her. Valentina has a talk with her bigger daughter telling her she doesn't have anything against Anna having a relationship in Paris as long as it stays in secret and it doesn't include her bodyguard. Santino reluctantly accepts to go to France with the Capo's daughter as she threatens to tell her father about his affair with the Captain's wife.

Once arriving in Paris Anna continues teasing Santino and starts openly flirting with him. He struggles against it at first but he also longs for her. A French guy Maurice flirts with Anna and Santino becomes overjealous. One night when Anna lies to Santino that she has already slept with Maurice, they finally enter into a sexual relationship.

In three years' time, Anna's college course is over. The couple promises to break up when they are back in Chicago. Anna and Santino realize quickly, however, that they can't stop their mutual desire and they continue to see each other in secret. A lot of people have come to the knowledge of their forbidden romance: Clifford, Leonas, Sofia, Enzo, and Frederica. Valentina also has her suspicions.

Anna's wedding with Clifford is looming over the horizon. She is apparently not happy with it. But she refuses to listen to the advice of Leonas and Sofia not to go with it. She doesn't want to share anything with her mother too. Anna wants to make Dante proud of her and fulfill her obligation to the Outfit as a Capo's daughter.

Shortly before her wedding, Anna has a date with Clifford in a cafe. Some enemies of the Clarks attack them. Santino stands in front of Anna to protect her and gets bullets for her. He is severely hurt and is being put in a coma. Anna suffers a lot and her guilt eats her from inside. She visits Santino in the hospital every day much to his father, Enzo Bianchi's dismay.

On the day of Anna and Clifford's wedding, Anna has her hesitations but proceeds with the ceremony. When she stands at the altar and the priest asks her whether she accepts Clifford as a husband, Anna finally decides to say 'no' at the same time her mother Valentina, having seen her daughter's unhappiness and feelings for Santino, stops the wedding.

Anna rushes to the hospital after finding out that Santino has woken up. Anna finally confesses her love for Santino and the overwhelming fear she had of losing him. Despite being disappointed in his older daughter, Dante forgives her. After a talk with Santino, he agrees to give their relationship a chance. In order to ensure the alliance with the Clarks Leonas suggests marrying Clifford's sister, Charlotte Clark.

Eventually, Anna and Santino marry. Her parents remark how bright and happy she is this time. Anna even designs herself the wedding dress: like an upside-down calla lily; the skirt is shorter in the front and the back has a slightly pointed train like the petal of the flower; from the knee below the color changes from pearlescent to subtly bluish hue.

## Appearances

* *Bound by Duty*
* *Bound by Love*
* *Bound by the Past*
* *Twisted Pride*
* *Fragile Longing*
* *By Virtue I Fall* (protagonist)