Kyra Santana

Kyra Santana, a character in the Open Heart series, is one of your patients at Edenbrook Hospital, and later your friend. She is first seen in Book 1, Chapter 3.

Appearance
Kyra has wavy brown hair, dark skin, and brown eyes. Her casual outfit consists of an off-the-shoulder white blouse with colorful palm leaves and black jeans.

Personality
Kyra is shown to be extremely flirtatious and playful but is generally decent and has a vibrant character.

Book 1

 * Chapter 3: Hanging in the Balance
 * Chapter 4: Dolores
 * Chapter 9: The Pita
 * Chapter 11: Whatever It Takes
 * Chapter 16: The Curious Case of Dr. Banerji
 * Chapter 17: The Oath

Book 2

 * Chapter 4: Blind Spot
 * Chapter 5: Influence (Determinant)
 * Chapter 8: Fair Game
 * Chapter 9: Undetected
 * Chapter 10: The Senator
 * Chapter 11: Countdown
 * Chapter 13: Time Bomb (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 14: Snowball (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 16: The Kindness of Strangers
 * Chapter 17: Hopeful Hearts
 * Chapter 18: Inevitable
 * Chapter 19: One Last Case
 * Chapter 20: Picking Sides

Your Character (Open Heart)
Because her previous Doctor decided to go golfing, Ethan assigns you to her case. With a first cursory glance at her chart, you see she has a fractured radius in need of casting. Ethan has you cast her arm. Upon further reading, you see she has large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma. In Chapter 9, she is in remission and you can spend some time with her in a premium scene. However, in Chapter 11 you find out that her cancer is back. You can go skydiving with her and your friends in a premium scene. Later, you go to a restaurant together to try out new meals and you tell her that she is afraid to fight. At the end of the chapter, you find that she has shaved off her hair before and is willing to fight her cancer.

In Book 2, she is still fighting her cancer but she is also determined to help other people so they won't go through the same as her. In Chapter 4, she informs you that she wants to start working as administrative assistant in Edenbrook. You can choose to help her with preparation for her interview. Later, she happily informs you that she got the job.

In Chapter 8, she tells you that she has more frequent chest pains and her treatment is going awful, but "it will be over soon". You take these words positively as you believe that her treatment will finish soon. However, the next day after the softball match Jackie informs you about an emergency and you find that Kyra has collapsed in her office. You discover that her cancer has returned and spread.

In Chapter 18, she experiences survivor's guilt for pulling through in her surgery and beating cancer on the same day that Danny and Bobby died. She has been trying to make her life mean something, and thought that if she could save Edenbrook from its financial difficulties that maybe it would be okay that she lived when they didn't.

Bryce Lahela
In Chapter 4, you see Bryce wheeling Kyra to surgery. He tells you that he will be assisting Dr. Zimmerman in her lung lobectomy. She flirts with both of you in front of each other.

In Book 2, Chapter 9, Bryce comes up with a long-shot risky procedure to save Kyra's life: to perform an extrapleural pneumonectomy.

Desmond
Desmond is the instructor if you go skydiving with her in Chapter 11. After your landing, you discover they are making out.

Jackie Varma
Jackie is one of Kyra's friends through you. If you decide to go skydiving with Kyra, Jackie comes along.

In Book 2, Jackie tells you that Kyra is working on the numbers for your Edenbrook Mass Kenmore partnership idea from her recovery room.

Other Looks

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Trivia

 * She has lung cancer but was admitted for a broken arm.
 * As of Chapter 9, she is in remission.
 * As of Chapter 11, her cancer is back and her chance of survival is at 10 percent.
 * The name Kyra means different things: Sun, clairvoyant, foresighted in Persian; lady in Greek; black, obscure in English and Irish; bright, gleaming in Japanese.
 * The surname Santana is of Spanish origin and means "Saint Anne". Saint Anne is the mother of the Virgin Mary.
 * In Chapter 11, she mentions her favorite foods are pizza, chicken nuggets, as well as mac and cheese. She tries out octopus with salmon roe because it is the food on the restaurant's menu that freaks her out the most, but finds it 'pretty gross'.
 * In the same scene, she also mentions she has never seen Alien, The Exorcist or Child's Play.
 * In Book 2, Chapter 4, she states she has a degree in accounting.
 * Her formal dress is an altered version of Sereena Patel's from the LoveHacks series.
 * Proof of her intended love interest status was shown briefly on Pixelberry's merchandise site, where on December 14, 2020, the limited edition Open Heart necklaces could be personalized with Kyra's name. However, on December 15, 2020, this option was removed.