Born in a suburb of Chicago, Heather was adopted by the Engels family as a baby. By the age of three, the Engels had moved from the winter chill of Chicago to the desert heat of Phoenix, Arizona and she would spend the next twenty or so years in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area. Although her adoptive parents divorced when she was young, Heather’s parents were determined to maintain a cordial relationship so that neither Heather, nor her older brother Nicholas (named after his father), would be denied contact with either pare more...
